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R. K. Livesley

Ph.D. Victoria University of Manchester 1954born 1926

Wikidata names James Lighthill and Louis Matheson as doctoral advisors and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and VIAF.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata1

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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 17 people: 17 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

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