Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Václav Chvátal

Czech-Canadian mathematicianborn 1946

Wikidata names Crispin Nash-Williams as doctoral advisor, lists 11 doctoral students, and names Zdeněk Hedrlín as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 8 other registers.

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Václav Chvátal, 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 Wikidata11

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

    Zdeněk Hedrlín

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 48 people: 48 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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