Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Heinrich Niemann

German university teacherborn 1940

Supervised 2 doctoral students between 2005 and 2010; Wikidata lists 4 doctoral students and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students on Wikidata4

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Taught2

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

    Joachim Hornegger

    born 1967
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Elmar Nöth

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    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 20 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 18 stated by Wikidata.

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