Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Grigori Perelman

Russian mathematician (born 1966)born 1966

Wikidata names Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yuri Burago as doctoral advisors and names Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Victor Zalgaller as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Grigori Perelman, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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.

Education and career6

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