Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Victor Kac

Russian-American mathematician (1943-)born 1943

Supervised 1 doctoral student and 1 master's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1994 and 2012; Wikidata names Ernest Vinberg as doctoral advisor, lists 17 doctoral students, and names Ernest Vinberg as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata17

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

    Ernest Vinberg

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 47 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 46 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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