# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/li-ye
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:24:00.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/li-ye"
name: "Li Ye"
slug: "li-ye"
description: "Li Ye, born Li Zhi, courtesy name Li Jingzhai, was a Chinese mathematician, politician, and writer who published and improved the tian yuan shu method for solving polynomial equations of one variable. Along with the 4th-century Chinese astronomer Yu Xi, Li Ye proposed the idea of a spherical Earth instead of a flat one before the advances of European science in the 17th century."
tagline: "Chinese scientist and writer (1192–1279)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1192"
deathDate: "1279"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28517066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%86%B6"
    title: "李冶"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ye"
    title: "Li Ye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ye_(Mathematiker)"
    title: "Li Ye (Mathematiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%B9_%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%B5"
    title: "Λι Γιε"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ye_(mathematician)"
    title: "Li Ye (mathematician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ye"
    title: "Li Ye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ye_(math%C3%A9maticien)"
    title: "Li Ye (mathématicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%86%B6"
    title: "李冶"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ye"
    title: "Li Ye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%95_(%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Ли Е (математик)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Je_(matematik)"
    title: "Li Je (matematik)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96_%D0%95"
    title: "Лі Е"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716964"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump