# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/e-brian-davies
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:34:58.527Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/e-brian-davies"
name: "E. Brian Davies"
slug: "e-brian-davies"
description: "Edward Brian Davies was a British mathematician who was professor of Mathematics, King's College London (1981–2010), and was the author of the popular science book Science in the Looking Glass: What do Scientists Really Know. In 2010, he was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society."
tagline: "British mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1944-06-13"
deathDate: "2025-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.404536
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "إي. برايان ديفيز"
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    title: "Edward Brian Davies"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump