# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-w-cannon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:30:38.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-w-cannon"
name: "James W. Cannon"
slug: "james-w-cannon"
description: "James W. Cannon is an American mathematician working in the areas of low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory. He was an Orson Pratt Professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University."
tagline: "American mathematician"
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birthDate: "1943-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جیمز وای کانن"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Weldon_Cannon"
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    title: "James W. Cannon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump