# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-khesin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:41:37.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-khesin"
name: "Boris Khesin"
slug: "boris-khesin"
description: "Boris Aronovich Khesin is a Russian and Canadian mathematician working on infinite-dimensional Lie groups, Poisson geometry and hydrodynamics. He has held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, and currently is a professor at the University of Toronto."
tagline: "Russian-Canadian mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Khesin_boris.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.00504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Aronowitsch_Chessin"
    title: "Boris Aronowitsch Chessin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Khesin"
    title: "Boris Khesin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Khesin"
    title: "Boris Khesin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Khesin"
    title: "Boris Khesin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Хесин, Борис Аронович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15455484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump