# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-wille
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:49:02.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-wille"
name: "Rudolf Wille"
slug: "rudolf-wille"
description: "Rudolf Wille was a German mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt. His most celebrated work is the invention of formal concept analysis, an unsupervised machine learning technique that applies mathematical lattice theory to organize data based on objects and their shared attributes."
tagline: "German mathematician (1937–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wille_Rudolf_29.06.2012_Darmstadt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-11-02"
deathDate: "2017-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.38
  momentum:             1.5625
  historical:           7.003996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Rudolf Wille"
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    title: "رودلف ويل"
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    title: "رودلف ويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Wille_(Mathematiker)"
    title: "Rudolf Wille (Mathematiker)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Wille"
    title: "Rudolf Wille"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Wille"
    title: "Rudolf Wille"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Wille"
    title: "Rudolf Wille"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Wille"
    title: "Rudolf Wille"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump