# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-borwein
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:11:17.909Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-borwein"
name: "Peter Borwein"
slug: "peter-borwein"
description: "Peter Benjamin Borwein was a Canadian mathematician \nand a professor at Simon Fraser University. He is known as a co-author of the paper which presented the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe algorithm for computing π."
tagline: "Canadian mathematician (1953-2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-10-05"
deathDate: "2020-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Peter Borwein"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump