Academic Ancestry

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Felix Browder

American mathematician1927 to 2016

Wikidata names Solomon Lefschetz and Witold Hurewicz as doctoral advisors and lists 15 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Felix Browder, 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.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata15

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

    Haïm Brezis

    born 1944

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 97 people: 97 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career10

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