# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-j-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:16:08.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-j-taylor"
name: "Martin J. Taylor"
slug: "martin-j-taylor"
description: "Martin John Taylor is a British mathematician and academic. He was Professor of Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986. He was elected Warden of Merton College, Oxford on 5 November 2009, took office on 2 October 2010 and retired in September 2018."
tagline: "British mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/sir-martin-taylor"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Taylor_(math%C3%A9maticien)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump