# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-sheffield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:42:23.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-sheffield"
name: "Scott Sheffield"
slug: "scott-sheffield"
description: "Scott Sheffield is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary research field is theoretical probability."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scott_Sheffield.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1973-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.29
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.412276
  currentAttention:     4
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Скотт Шеффілд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "سكوت شيفيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "سكوت شيفيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sheffield"
    title: "Scott Sheffield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sheffield"
    title: "Scott Sheffield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sheffield"
    title: "Scott Sheffield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sheffield"
    title: "Scott Sheffield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Шеффилд, Скотт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2261035"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump