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Wolfgang Hackbusch

German mathematicianborn 1948

Supervised 8 doctoral students at Universität Leipzig, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS); Wikidata names Roland Bulirsch as doctoral advisor and lists 31 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Wolfgang Hackbusch, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students8

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata31

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

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 147 people: 8 cited by thesis records, 139 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Sat beside the lineage13

referee, not advisor