# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-kauffman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:11:39.730Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-kauffman"
name: "Louis Kauffman"
slug: "louis-kauffman"
description: "Louis Hirsch Kauffman is an American mathematician, mathematical physicist, and professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He does research in topology, knot theory, topological quantum field theory, quantum information theory, and diagrammatic and categorical mathematics. He is best known for the introduction and development of the bracket polynomial and the Kauffman polynomial."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lou_Kauffman_Silver_City_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-02-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump