# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-s-reed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:19:53.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-s-reed"
name: "Irving S. Reed"
slug: "irving-s-reed"
description: "Irving Stoy Reed was an American mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code."
tagline: "American mathematician (1923–2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-11-12"
deathDate: "2012-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3648068669527897
  historical:           8.750721333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ірвінг Рід"
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    title: "إرفينغ إس. ريد"
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    title: "ارفينج اس. ريد"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Stoy_Reed"
    title: "Irving Stoy Reed"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_S._Reed"
    title: "Irving S. Reed"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Stoy_Reed"
    title: "Irving Stoy Reed"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_S._Reed"
    title: "Irving S. Reed"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Reed"
    title: "Irving Reed"
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    title: "Irving S. Reed"
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    title: "Рид, Ирвинг"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump