# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-spencer-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:53:22.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/g-spencer-brown"
name: "G. Spencer-Brown"
slug: "g-spencer-brown"
description: "George Spencer-Brown was an English polymath best known as the author of the 1969 book Laws of Form, a study of mathematics and philosophy. He described himself as a \"mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet\"."
tagline: "British philosopher, logician and mathematician, encyclopedist (1923-2016), main work \"Laws of Form\" (1969)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-04-02"
deathDate: "2016-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.701334666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Spencer-Brown"
    title: "George Spencer-Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Spencer-Brown"
    title: "G. Spencer-Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Spencer-Brown"
    title: "George Spencer-Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%92'_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A8-%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "ג'ורג' ספנסר-בראון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9A%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3"
    title: "G・スペンサー＝ブラウン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Spencer-Gordon"
    title: "G. Spencer-Gordon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Spencer-Brown"
    title: "G. Spencer-Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._Spencer-Brown"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1508271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump