# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/igor-pak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:01:08.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/igor-pak"
name: "Igor Pak"
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description: "Igor Pak is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, working in combinatorics and discrete probability. He formerly taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Minnesota, and he is best known for his bijective proof of the hook-length formula for the number of Young tableaux, and his work on random walks. He was a keynote speaker alongside George Andrews and Doron Zeilberger at the 2006 Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics."
tagline: "Russian-American mathematician"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump