# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reuben-hersh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:15:24.416Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reuben-hersh"
name: "Reuben Hersh"
slug: "reuben-hersh"
description: "Reuben Hersh was an American mathematician and academic of Jewish heritage, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics. Although he was generally known as Reuben Hersh, late in life he sometimes used the name Reuben Laznovsky in recognition of his father's ancestral family name. His work challenges and complements mainstream philosophy of mathematics."
tagline: "American mathematician (1927–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Reuben_Hersh_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-12-09"
deathDate: "2020-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.411952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump