Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Li-Jian Yang

Ph.D. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1995

Wikidata names J. S. Marron as doctoral advisor and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

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 27 people: 27 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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