# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edouard-zeckendorf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:36:47.283Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/edouard-zeckendorf"
name: "Edouard Zeckendorf"
slug: "edouard-zeckendorf"
description: "Edouard Zeckendorf was a Belgian doctor, army officer and amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is best known for his work on Fibonacci numbers and in particular for discovering and proving what is now known as Zeckendorf's theorem: every positive whole number is either a Fibonacci number or can be written as a sum of distinct non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers."
tagline: "Mathematician, military officer, physician (1901–1983)"
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birthDate: "1901-05-02"
deathDate: "1983-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump