# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-m-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:23:02.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-m-foster"
name: "R. M. Foster"
slug: "r-m-foster"
description: "Ronald Martin Foster, was an American mathematician at Bell Labs whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines. He published an important paper, A Reactance Theorem, which quickly inspired Wilhelm Cauer to begin his program of network synthesis filters which put the design of filters on a firm mathematical footing. He is also known for the Foster census of cubic, symmetric graphs and the 90-vertex cubic symmetric Foster graph."
tagline: "American mathematician (1896–1998)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1896-10-03"
deathDate: "1998-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.4027
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Рональд Фостер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رونالد إم. فوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ronald Martin Foster"
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    title: "Ronald M. Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_M._Foster"
    title: "Ronald M. Foster"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._M._Foster"
    title: "R. M. Foster"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Martin_Foster"
    title: "Ronald Martin Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Фостер, Рональд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump