# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-de-casteljau
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:36:04.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-de-casteljau"
name: "Paul de Casteljau"
slug: "paul-de-casteljau"
description: "Paul de Casteljau was a French physicist and mathematician. In 1959, while working at Citroën, he developed an algorithm for evaluating calculations on a certain family of curves, which would later be formalized and popularized by engineer Pierre Bézier, leading to the curves widely known as Bézier curves."
tagline: "French mathematician and engineer (1930–2022)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1930-11-19"
deathDate: "2022-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump