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Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn

Dutch mathematician1918 to 2012

Wikidata names Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata11

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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 134 people: 134 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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