Academic Ancestry

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Albert Pfluger

Swiss mathematician1907 to 1993

Wikidata names George Pólya and Walter Saxer as doctoral advisors and lists 33 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Albert Pfluger, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata33

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

    John Steinig

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 526 people: 526 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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