in mathematics in 1982; his senior thesis was titled "Recursivity in quantum mechanics", under the supervision of John P.

[12] Baez won the 2013 Levi L. Conant Prize for his expository paper with John Huerta, "The algebra of grand unified theories".

[15] Baez creates blog posts about topics or questions he wants to understand more through his column publishings.

[17] He is also co-founder of the n-Category Café (or n-Café), a group blog concerning higher category theory and its applications, as well as its philosophical repercussions.

John Baez is married to Lisa Raphals who is a professor of Chinese and comparative literature from ancient Greece at UCR.