# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/przemys-aw-prusinkiewicz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:32:30.449Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/przemys-aw-prusinkiewicz"
name: "Przemysław Prusinkiewicz"
slug: "przemys-aw-prusinkiewicz"
description: "Przemysław (Przemek) Prusinkiewicz is a Polish computer scientist who advanced the idea that Fibonacci numbers in nature can be in part understood as the expression of certain algebraic constraints on free groups, specifically as certain Lindenmayer grammars. Prusinkiewicz's main work is on the modeling of plant growth through such grammars."
tagline: "Polish computer scientist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Fractal_weeds.jpg/330px-Fractal_weeds.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.25
  momentum:             7.714285714285714
  historical:           5.672030666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Przemysław Prusinkiewicz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82aw_Prusinkiewicz"
    title: "Przemysław Prusinkiewicz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82aw_Prusinkiewicz"
    title: "Przemysław Prusinkiewicz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%99%AE%E7%83%AD%E6%A2%85%E6%96%AF%E7%93%A6%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E6%99%AE%E9%B2%81%E8%BE%9B%E5%87%AF%E7%BB%B4%E5%A5%87"
    title: "普热梅斯瓦夫·普鲁辛凯维奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82aw_Prusinkiewicz"
    title: "Przemysław Prusinkiewicz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82aw_Prusinkiewicz"
    title: "Przemysław Prusinkiewicz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump