# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-zagier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:09:42.224Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/don-zagier"
name: "Don Zagier"
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description: "Don Bernard Zagier is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the Collège de France in Paris from 2006 to 2014. Since October 2014, he is also a Distinguished Staff Associate at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Among his doctoral students are Fields medalists Maxim Kontsevich and Maryna Viazovska."
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birthDate: "1951-06-29"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump