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Thomas Nygren

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1975

Supervised 2 doctoral students at The Ohio State University between 2005 and 2012; Wikidata names Henry M. Halff and Lawrence Edward Jones as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 2 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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