# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sergey-degayev
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:35:09.798Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sergey-degayev"
name: "Sergey Degayev"
slug: "sergey-degayev"
description: "Sergey Petrovich Degayev was a Russian revolutionary terrorist, Okhrana agent, and the murderer of inspector of secret police Georgy Sudeykin. After emigrating to the United States, Degayev took the name Alexander Pell and became a prominent American mathematician, the founder of school of Engineering at the University of South Dakota. The Dr. Alexander Pell scholarship is named in his honor."
tagline: "Russian double agent and American mathematician (1857–1921)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sergey_Degayev_1.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: "1857-09-25"
deathDate: "1921-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.25
  momentum:             5.879396984924622
  historical:           5.300938666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Degayev"
    title: "Sergey Degayev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "سيرجى ديجاييف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serguei_Deg%C3%A0iev"
    title: "Serguei Degàiev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Дегаев, Сергей Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Degajev"
    title: "Sergei Degajev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siergiej_Diegajew"
    title: "Siergiej Diegajew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4156564"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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