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Frank Adams

British mathematician1930 to 1989

Wikidata names Shaun Wylie as doctoral advisor and lists 25 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Frank Adams, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Theses

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata25

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 426 people: 426 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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