# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/naum-vilenkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:30:59.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/naum-vilenkin"
name: "Naum Vilenkin"
slug: "naum-vilenkin"
description: "Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin was a Soviet mathematician, an expert in representation theory, the theory of special functions, functional analysis, and combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students."
tagline: "Russian mathematician (1920–1991)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-10-30"
deathDate: "1991-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.217172
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Вілєнкін Наум Якович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "نعوم فيلينكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Jakowlewitsch_Wilenkin"
    title: "Naum Jakowlewitsch Wilenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Yakovlevich_Vilenkin"
    title: "Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Vilenkin"
    title: "Naum Vilenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Vilenkin"
    title: "Naum Vilenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Vilenkin"
    title: "Naum Vilenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Виленкин, Наум Яковлевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381317"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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