# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-majda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:52:52.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-majda"
name: "Andrew Majda"
slug: "andrew-majda"
description: "Andrew Joseph Majda was an American mathematician and the Morse Professor of Arts and Sciences at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He was known for his theoretical contributions to partial differential equations as well as his applied contributions to diverse areas including shock waves, combustion, incompressible flow, vortex dynamics, and atmospheric sciences."
tagline: "American mathematician (1949–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_Majda.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-01-30"
deathDate: "2021-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump