# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-ribet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:51:48.402Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-ribet"
name: "Kenneth Ribet"
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description: "Kenneth Alan Ribet is an American mathematician working in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. He is known for the Herbrand–Ribet theorem and Ribet's theorem, which were key ingredients in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, as well as for his service as President of the American Mathematical Society from 2017 to 2019. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley."
tagline: "American mathematician,researcher and supervisor"
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country:
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birthDate: "1948-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump