# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-erdelyi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:23:49.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-erdelyi"
name: "Arthur Erdélyi"
slug: "arthur-erdelyi"
description: "Arthur Erdélyi FRS, FRSE was a Hungarian-born British mathematician. Erdélyi was a leading expert on special functions, particularly orthogonal polynomials and hypergeometric functions."
tagline: "Hungarian-born British mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1908-10-02"
deathDate: "1977-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.672102666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Эрдейи, Артур"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Erd%C3%A9lyi"
    title: "Arthur Erdélyi"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Erd%C3%A9lyi"
    title: "Arthur Erdélyi"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Erd%C3%A9lyi"
    title: "Arthur Erdélyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%C3%BAr_Erd%C3%A9lyi"
    title: "Artúr Erdélyi"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Erd%C3%A9lyi"
    title: "Arthur Erdélyi"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C3%A9lyi_Art%C3%BAr"
    title: "Erdélyi Artúr"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Erd%C3%A9lyi"
    title: "Arthur Erdélyi"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Erd%C3%A9lyi"
    title: "Arthur Erdélyi"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump