# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-gow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:04:45.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-gow"
name: "James Gow"
slug: "james-gow"
description: "James Gow (1854–1923) was an English scholar, educator, historian, and author, widely recognized for A Short History of Greek Mathematics. The history drew highly upon the work of Moritz Cantor, as well as upon pioneering works of Carl Anton Bretschneider, Hermann Hankel, and George Johnston Allman, but included material, e.g., gematria, not discussed by contemporary historians of mathematics."
tagline: "Scholar"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854"
deathDate: "1923"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.40144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "جيمس جاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gow_(Philologe)"
    title: "James Gow (Philologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%82_%CE%93%CE%BA%CF%8C%CE%BF%CF%85_(%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82)"
    title: "Τζέιμς Γκόου (λόγιος)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gow_(scholar)"
    title: "James Gow (scholar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Gow_(scholar)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18511751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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