# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walther-mayer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:11:54.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walther-mayer"
name: "Walther Mayer"
slug: "walther-mayer"
description: "Walther Mayer was an Austrian mathematician, born in Graz, Austria-Hungary. With Leopold Vietoris he is the namesake of the Mayer–Vietoris sequence in topology. He served as an assistant to Albert Einstein and subsequently worked with him several years as a close collaborator, leading to the nickname \"Einstein's calculator\"."
tagline: "Austrian mathematician (1887–1948)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1887-03-11"
deathDate: "1948-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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    title: "Walther Mayer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump