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Ferdinand Gonseth

Swiss mathematician1890 to 1975

Supervised 19 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1916 under Marcel Grossmann and Louis Kollros; Wikidata lists 15 doctoral students and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Ferdinand Gonseth, pictured

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Advisors2

  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Marcel Grossmann“Etude synthétique et applications de l'apolarité”

    1916 · ETH Zurich · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Louis Kollros“Etude synthétique et applications de l'apolarité”

    1916 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students19

Students on Wikidata15

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Julius Richard Büchi

    born 1924
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Pierre Lardy

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 636 people: 230 cited by thesis records, 419 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career3

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

Works1

1916 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?