Yeats is from
Halifax, Nova Scotia. As an undergraduate at the University of Waterloo, they won an honourable mention for the 2003
Morgan Prize for their research in
number theory, the theory of
Lie groups, and
non-standard models of arithmetic. They graduated in 2003, and went to
Boston University for graduate school, where they completed their Ph.D. in 2008. Their dissertation,
Growth Estimates for Dyson-Schwinger Equations, was supervised by
Dirk Kreimer. In 2016, Yeats was awarded a
Humboldt Fellowship to visit Kreimer at the
Humboldt University of Berlin. Yeats is the author of the books
Rearranging Dyson–Schwinger Equations (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2011) and
A Combinatorial Perspective on Quantum Field Theory (Springer, 2017). ==References==