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Diederik Korteweg

Dutch mathematician (*1848 – †1941)1848 to 1941

Wikidata names Johannes Diderik van der Waals as doctoral advisor, lists 19 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Diederik Korteweg, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Gerrit Mannoury

    born 1867

The line above and below3 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 155 people: 155 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career6

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