Academic Ancestry

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John Carl Schotland

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 1986

Wikidata names Britton Chance and John S. Leigh, Jr. as doctoral advisors and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 5 people: 5 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.