@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-09 15:33 UTC
@rastinza@qoto.org @olibrendel@scicomm.xyz - I was surprised when I looked myself up on Google and it said
John Carlos Baez is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory. Wikipedia
Born: 1961 (age 64 years), San Francisco, CA
Partner: Lisa Raphals
h-index: 65
Nationality: American
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University
Awards: Levi L. Conant Prize
The surprising thing was that it listed my h-index! I don't have any sense of whether mine h-index is good compared to other mathematicians, but mainly it's annoying to be rated in this way.
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