# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonidas-alaoglu
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:30:58.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonidas-alaoglu"
name: "Leonidas Alaoglu"
slug: "leonidas-alaoglu"
description: "Leonidas (Leon) Alaoglu was a Canadian-American mathematician and operations researcher. During his six-year stint as a mathematician from 1938 to 1944, Alaoglu studied several topics, including topology, number theory, and the geometry of polyhedra. His best known result, which he proved during this period, was Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space. After 1944, he left academia for the world of operations research."
tagline: "Canadian mathematician (1914–1981)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-03-19"
deathDate: "1981"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             6.06060606060606
  historical:           9.817244
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Leonidas Alaoglu"
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    title: "Leonidas Alaoglu"
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    title: "리오니더스 앨러오글루"
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    title: "Leonidas Alaoglu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump