# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-olshansky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:10.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-olshansky"
name: "Aleksandr Olshansky"
slug: "aleksandr-olshansky"
description: "Alexander Yu. Olshanskii is a Russian-American mathematician renowned for his contributions to combinatorial and geometric group theory. He is particularly noted for constructing infinite groups with unusual properties and for developing geometric methods in group theory. Olshanskii has also made significant contributions to the study of Lie algebras and algebraic systems."
tagline: "Russian mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olshanskiy_Alexander_Yu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.540353333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "اليكساندير اولشانسكى"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jurjewitsch_Olschanski"
    title: "Alexander Jurjewitsch Olschanski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Olshanskii"
    title: "Alexander Olshanskii"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Olszanski"
    title: "Aleksandr Olszanski"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Olshansky"
    title: "Aleksandr Olshansky"
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    title: "Ольшанский, Александр Юрьевич"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump