# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-hoffman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:41:42.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-hoffman"
name: "Alan Hoffman"
slug: "alan-hoffman"
description: "Alan Jerome Hoffman was an American mathematician and IBM Fellow emeritus, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, in Yorktown Heights, New York. He was the founding editor of the journal Linear Algebra and its Applications, and held several patents. He contributed to combinatorial optimization and the eigenvalue theory of graphs. Hoffman and Robert Singleton constructed the Hoffman–Singleton graph, which is the unique Moore graph of degree 7 and diameter 2."
tagline: "American mathematician (1924-2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-05-30"
deathDate: "2021-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.873417721518987
  historical:           8.741793333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Alan J. Hoffman"
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    title: "آلن هافمن (ریاضیاتچی)"
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    title: "Alan J. Hoffman"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Hoffman"
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    title: "Alan Jerome Hoffman"
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    title: "Хоффман, Алан"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump