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George Forsythe

Stanford University computer scientist1917 to 1972

Wikidata names Jacob Tamarkin and William Feller as doctoral advisors and lists 18 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata18

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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 318 people: 318 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career10

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