# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vera-pless
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:16:11.285Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vera-pless"
name: "Vera Pless"
slug: "vera-pless"
description: "Vera Pless was an American mathematician who specialized in combinatorics and coding theory. She was professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago."
tagline: "American mathematician (1931–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Huffman_pless_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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birthDate: "1931-03-05"
deathDate: "2020-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump