# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-spivak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:43:15.168Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-spivak"
name: "Michael Spivak"
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description: "Michael David Spivak was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, which won the Leroy P. Steele Prize for expository writing in 1985."
tagline: "American mathematician (1940–2020)"
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birthDate: "1940-05-25"
deathDate: "2020-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump