# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gyula-pal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:58:28.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gyula-pal"
name: "Gyula Pál"
slug: "gyula-pal"
description: "Gyula Pál was a noted Hungarian-Danish mathematician. He is known for his work on Jordan curves both in plane and space, and on the Kakeya problem. He proved that every locally connected planar continuum with at least two points is the orthogonal projection of a closed Jordan curve of the Euclidean 3-space."
tagline: "Hungarian mathematician (1881-1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P%C3%A1l_Gyula.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1881-06-27"
deathDate: "1946-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.36
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.335349333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Pál Gyula (matematikus)"
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  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "جيولا بال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula_P%C3%A1l"
    title: "Gyula Pál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula_P%C3%A1l"
    title: "Gyula Pál"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula_P%C3%A1l"
    title: "Gyula Pál"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "یولا پال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula_P%C3%A1l"
    title: "Gyula Pál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5625591"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump