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Eduard Stiefel

Swiss mathematician1909 to 1978

Supervised 40 doctoral students at ETH Zurich between 1941 and 1973; doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1935 under Ferdinand Gonseth and Heinz Hopf; Wikidata lists 53 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Eduard Stiefel, pictured

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Theses1

Advisors2

  • cited by a thesis record

    Ferdinand Gonseth“Richtungsfelder und Fernparallelismus in n-dimensionalen Mannigfaltigkeiten”

    1935 · ETH Zurich · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Heinz Hopf“Richtungsfelder und Fernparallelismus in n-dimensionalen Mannigfaltigkeiten”

    1935 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students40

Students on Wikidata53

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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 688 people: 181 cited by thesis records, 523 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Works1

1935 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?