# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cheng-dawei
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:45:42.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cheng-dawei"
name: "Cheng Dawei"
slug: "cheng-dawei"
description: "Cheng Dawei, also known as Da Wei Cheng or Ch'eng Ta-wei, was a Chinese mathematician and writer who was known mainly as the author of Suanfa Tongzong (算法統宗). He has been described as \"the most illustrious Chinese arithmetician.\""
tagline: "Chinese mathematician (1533-1606)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Suanfatongzong-036-036.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1533-05-03"
deathDate: "1606-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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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