# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-w-weisstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:13:34.412Z

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name: "Eric W. Weisstein"
slug: "eric-w-weisstein"
description: "Eric Wolfgang Weisstein is an American scientist, mathematician, and encyclopedist who created and maintains the encyclopedias MathWorld and ScienceWorld. In addition, he is the author of the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. He works for Wolfram Research."
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birthDate: "1969-03-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump