# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-e-humphreys
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:01:22.408Z

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name: "James E. Humphreys"
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description: "James Edward Humphreys was an American mathematician who worked in algebraic groups, Lie groups, and Lie algebras and applications of these mathematical structures. He is known as the author of several mathematical texts, such as Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory and Reflection Groups and Coxeter Groups."
tagline: "American mathematician (1939–2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1939"
deathDate: "2020-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump