# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-gacs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:03:58.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-gacs"
name: "Peter Gács"
slug: "peter-gacs"
description: "Péter Gács, professionally also known as Peter Gacs, is a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, professor, and an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is well known for his work in reliable computation, randomness in computing, algorithmic complexity, algorithmic probability, and information theory."
tagline: "Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.41
  momentum:             4.219409282700422
  historical:           4.869762666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gacs"
    title: "Peter Gacs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gacs"
    title: "Peter Gacs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81_%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%82"
    title: "Πίτερ Γκατς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gacs"
    title: "Peter Gacs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_G%C3%A1cs"
    title: "Péter Gács"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B1_%DA%AF%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "پیٹر گیکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102174901"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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