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Gerald F. Smith

Ph.D. Brown University 1956died 2022

Wikidata names Ronald Rivlin as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata2

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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 16 people: 16 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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