# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volodymyr-petryshyn
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:46:58.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volodymyr-petryshyn"
name: "Volodymyr Petryshyn"
slug: "volodymyr-petryshyn"
description: "Walter Volodymyr Petryshyn (Vladimir Petryshin) (22 January 1929 – 21 March 2020) was a Ukrainian mathematician. \nOn 6 May 1996, Petryshyn killed his wife, Ukrainian-American painter Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn. He suffered from a severe depression, which caused the tragedy and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society."
tagline: "Ukrainian mathematician (1929–2020)"
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: "1929-01-22"
deathDate: "2020-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.12
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.135277333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Петришин Вальтер Володимир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ڤولوديمير پيتريشين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodimir_Petryshyn"
    title: "Volodimir Petryshyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Petryshyn"
    title: "Volodymyr Petryshyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Petryshin"
    title: "Vladimir Petryshin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wo%C5%82odymyr_Petryszyn"
    title: "Wołodymyr Petryszyn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80"
    title: "Петришин, Вальтер Володимир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7940604"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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