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Gilbert Strang

American mathematicianborn 1934

Supervised 10 doctoral students (18 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Peter Henrici as doctoral advisor and lists 22 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Gilbert Strang, pictured

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Students18

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata22

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 205 people: 10 cited by thesis records, 195 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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