# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-emerson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:23:04.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-emerson"
name: "William Emerson"
slug: "william-emerson"
description: "William Emerson was an English mathematician. He was born in Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school."
tagline: "British mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Emerson._Stipple_engraving_by_H._Adlard_after_Sikes._Wellcome_V0001762.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1701-05-14"
deathDate: "1782-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.674838666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Emerson"
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    title: "ویلیام امرسون (ریاضیاتچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson"
    title: "William Emerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson"
    title: "William Emerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson_(mathematician)"
    title: "William Emerson (mathematician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson"
    title: "William Emerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson"
    title: "William Emerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson"
    title: "William Emerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson"
    title: "William Emerson"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump