Editing John C. Baez (section)

== Education ==
John C. Baez attended [[Princeton University]] where he graduated with an A.B. in mathematics in 1982; his senior thesis was titled "Recursivity in quantum mechanics", under the supervision of [[John P. Burgess]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Baez|first=John C.|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/4057230|title=Recursivity in quantum mechanics|date=1982|publisher=Princeton University Department of Mathematics|location=Princeton, N.J.|language=en}}</ref>
He earned his doctorate in 1986 from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] under the direction of [[Irving Segal]].<ref>{{MathGenealogy | id= 25152 }}</ref>