# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-dahmen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:47.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-dahmen"
name: "Wolfgang Dahmen"
slug: "wolfgang-dahmen"
description: "Wolfgang Dahmen is a German mathematician working in approximation theory, numerical analysis, and partial differential equations. In 2002, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and in 2011 the Gauss Lectureship. He was also a taekwondo athlete. He has been the Chair of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (2014–)."
tagline: "German mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Dahmen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1949-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.804968
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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    title: "وولفجانج دهمين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Dahmen"
    title: "Wolfgang Dahmen"
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    title: "Wolfgang Dahmen"
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    title: "Wolfgang Dahmen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump