# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-adler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:03:02.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-adler"
name: "Irving Adler"
slug: "irving-adler"
description: "Irving Adler was an American author, mathematician, scientist, political activist, and educator. He was the author of 57 books about mathematics, science, and education, and the co-author of 30 more, for both children and adults. His books have been published in 31 countries in 19 different languages. Since his teenaged years, Adler was involved in social and political activities focused on civil rights, civil liberties, and peace, including his role as a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education that bears his name."
tagline: "American author (1913–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irving_Adler_%40_75.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1913-04-27"
deathDate: "2012-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.676242666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Adler"
    title: "Irving Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA_%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "إرفينغ أدلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Adler"
    title: "Irving Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Adler"
    title: "Irving Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Adler"
    title: "Irving Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Adler"
    title: "Irving Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3710467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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