# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-lyndon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:49:51.047Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-lyndon"
name: "Roger Lyndon"
slug: "roger-lyndon"
description: "Roger Conant Lyndon was an American mathematician, for many years a professor at the University of Michigan. He is known for Lyndon words, the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem, Craig–Lyndon interpolation and the Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence."
tagline: "Mathematician (1917–1988)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1917-12-18"
deathDate: "1988-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump