Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Martin Davis

American mathematician1928 to 2023

Wikidata names Alonzo Church as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData
Martin Davis, pictured

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

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

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 59 people: 59 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career11

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