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Richard M. Dudley

American mathematician1938 to 2020

Supervised 12 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1973 and 2010; Wikidata names Edward Nelson and Gilbert Agnew Hunt as doctoral advisors and lists 33 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students12

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata33

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 117 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 105 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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