Biography Max Tegmark




1 biography

1.1 life
1.2 career
1.3 personal life





biography
early life

tegmark born in sweden, son of karin tegmark , american-born professor emeritus of mathematics harold s. shapiro. graduated royal institute of technology in stockholm, sweden , stockholm school of economics , later received phd university of california, berkeley. after having worked @ university of pennsylvania, @ massachusetts institute of technology. while in high school, tegmark , friend created , sold word processor written in pure machine code swedish eight-bit computer abc 80, , 3d tetris-like game.


career

his research has focused on cosmology, combining theoretical work new measurements place constraints on cosmological models , free parameters, in collaboration experimentalists. has on 200 publications, of 9 have been cited on 500 times. has developed data analysis tools based on information theory , applied them cosmic microwave background experiments such cobe, qmap, , wmap, , galaxy redshift surveys such las campanas redshift survey, 2df survey , sloan digital sky survey.


with daniel eisenstein , wayne hu, introduced idea of using baryon acoustic oscillations standard ruler. angelica de oliveira-costa , andrew hamilton, discovered anomalous multipole alignment in wmap data referred axis of evil . anthony aguirre, developed cosmological interpretation of quantum mechanics.


tegmark has formulated ultimate ensemble theory of , postulate structures exist mathematically exist physically . simple theory, no free parameters @ all, suggests in structures complex enough contain self-aware substructures (sass), these sass subjectively perceive existing in physically real world. idea formalized mathematical universe hypothesis, described in book our mathematical universe.


tegmark elected fellow of american physical society in 2012 for, according citation, contributions cosmology, including precision measurements cosmic microwave background , galaxy clustering data, tests of inflation , gravitation theories, , development of new technology low-frequency radio interferometry .


personal life

he married astrophysicist angelica de oliveira-costa in 1997, , divorced in 2009. have 2 sons. on august 5, 2012, tegmark married meia chita, boston university ph.d. candidate.








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