# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janos-aczel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:31:29.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janos-aczel"
name: "János Aczél"
slug: "janos-aczel"
description: "János Dezső Aczél, also known as John Aczel, was a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician, who specialized in functional equations and information theory."
tagline: "Hungarian-Canadian mathematician (1924-2020)"
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gender: "male"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-12-26"
deathDate: "2020-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "János Aczél"
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    title: "János Aczél (mathematician)"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acz%C3%A9l_J%C3%A1nos_(matematikus)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "János Aczél"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Acz%C3%A9l"
    title: "János Aczél"
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    title: "János Aczél"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Acz%C3%A9l_(mathematician)"
    title: "János Aczél (mathematician)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump