Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

W. Hugh Woodin

American mathematicianborn 1955

Supervised 3 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Robert M. Solovay as doctoral advisor, lists 21 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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W. Hugh Woodin, pictured

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 OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students3

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata21

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Vincenzo Dimonte

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 69 people: 3 cited by thesis records, 66 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage3

committee member, not advisor