# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-perkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:16:41.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-perkins"
name: "Ed Perkins"
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description: "Edwin Arend Perkins is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, including the analysis of Brownian motion and the applications to probability of non-standard analysis. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at the University of British Columbia."
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country:
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birthDate: "1953-08-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~perkins/perkins.html"
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    title: "Edwin A. Perkins"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump