# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-machin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:29.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-machin"
name: "John Machin"
slug: "john-machin"
description: "John Machin was a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. He is best known for developing a quickly converging series for pi in 1706 and using it to compute pi to 100 decimal places."
tagline: "English mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_machin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1680"
deathDate: "1751-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump