# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jens-h-yrup
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:38:12.872Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jens-h-yrup"
name: "Jens Høyrup"
slug: "jens-h-yrup"
description: "Jens Egede Høyrup is a Danish historian of mathematics, specializing in pre-modern and early modern mathematics, particularly ancient Mesopotamian mathematics. He is known for his interpretation of what has often been referred to as Old Babylonian \"algebra\" as consisting of concrete, geometric manipulations."
tagline: "Danish mathematician and historian of mathematics"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Menso_Folkerts_et_Jens_H%C3%B8yrup_en_2013_(ICHM).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.803384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jens Høyrup"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_H%C3%B8yrup"
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    title: "ینس هویروپ"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_H%C3%B8yrup"
    title: "Jens Høyrup"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump