# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lev-pontryagin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:35:01.355Z

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name: "Lev Pontryagin"
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description: "Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump