# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-swan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:57:18.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-swan"
name: "Richard Swan"
slug: "richard-swan"
description: "Richard Gordon Swan is an American mathematician who is known for the Serre–Swan theorem relating the geometric notion of vector bundles to the algebraic concept of projective modules, and for the Swan representation, an l-adic projective representation of a Galois group. His work has mainly been in the area of algebraic K-theory."
tagline: "American mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-12-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             1.219512195121951
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Swan"
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    title: "ريتشارد سوان"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Swan"
    title: "Richard Swan"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Swan"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Swan"
    title: "Richard Swan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump