# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-w-henderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:49:31.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-w-henderson"
name: "David W. Henderson"
slug: "david-w-henderson"
description: "David Wilson Henderson was a professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University. His work ranges from the study of topology, algebraic geometry, history of mathematics and exploratory mathematics for teaching prospective mathematics teachers. His papers in the philosophy of mathematics place him with the intuitionist school of philosophy of mathematics. His practical geometry, which he put to work and discovered in his carpentry work, gives a perspective of geometry as the understanding of the infinite spaces through local properties. Euclidean geometry is seen in his work as extendable to the spherical and hyperbolic spaces starting with the study and reformulation of the 5th postulate."
tagline: "American mathematician (1939-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daina_Taimina.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-02-23"
deathDate: "2018-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.135457333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ديفيد دبليو. هندرسون"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Henderson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations