Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Pierre Samuel

French mathematician1921 to 2009

Supervised 5 doctoral students at Université Paris-Sud (1970-2019) between 1971 and 1973; Wikidata names Oscar Zariski as doctoral advisor, lists 13 doctoral students, names Oscar Zariski as teacher, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata13

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Oscar Zariski

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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 165 people: 18 cited by thesis records, 150 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career6

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

Sat beside the lineage3

jury member, not advisor