# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-masser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:53:28.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-masser"
name: "David Masser"
slug: "david-masser"
description: "David William Masser is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel. He is known for his work in transcendental number theory, Diophantine approximation, and Diophantine geometry. With Joseph Oesterlé in 1985, Masser formulated the abc conjecture, which has been called \"the most important unsolved problem in Diophantine analysis\"."
tagline: "British mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Masser.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.944133333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%A1%9B%C2%B7%E9%A6%AC%E7%91%9F"
    title: "大衛·馬瑟"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "داڤيد ماسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Masser"
    title: "David Masser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Masser"
    title: "David Masser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Masser"
    title: "David Masser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Masser"
    title: "David Masser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Masser"
    title: "David Masser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デイヴィッド・マッサー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Masser"
    title: "David Masser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Массер, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q687611"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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