# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-l-boas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:33:30.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-l-boas"
name: "Mary L. Boas"
slug: "mary-l-boas"
description: "Mary Layne Boas was an American mathematician and physics professor best known as the author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences (1966), an undergraduate textbook that was still widely used in college classrooms as of 1999."
tagline: "American mathematician and physics professor (1917–2010)"
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birthDate: "1917-03-10"
deathDate: "2010-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump