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People / John Baez

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John Baez is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for his work on quantum gravity and higher category theory. His work in public communication of the sciences began in 1993 with his long running column “This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics”. In 2010, he founded the Azimuth Project, a focal point for scientists and engineers devoted to studying mathematical sciences for addressing climate change and other environmental and ecological problems. He brings this spirit to his work at Topos.

Personal website
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/

Blog posts

Mathematics for climate change

John Baez is now helping lead a new Fields Institute program on the mathematics of climate change.

John Baez
2023-11-23

Stock-flow diagram for SIR disease model

Categories for Epidemiology

Xiaoyan Li, Sophie Libkind, Nathaniel D. Osgood, Eric Redekopp and I have been creating software for modeling the spread of disease… with the help of category theory! Lots of epidemiologists use “stock-flow diagrams” to describe ordinary differential equation (ODE) models of disease dynamics.…

John Baez
2023-05-12
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