# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-ax
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:02:47.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-ax"
name: "James Ax"
slug: "james-ax"
description: "James Burton Ax was an American mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions in algebra and number theory using model theory. He shared, with Simon B. Kochen, the seventh Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory, which was awarded for a series of three joint papers on Diophantine problems."
tagline: "American mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-01-10"
deathDate: "2006-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump