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Gerard van der Geer

Dutch mathematician (born 1950)born 1950

Supervised 12 doctoral students at Algebra between 1997 and 2019; Wikidata names Antonius van de Ven as doctoral advisor and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Gerard van der Geer, pictured

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Students12

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata16

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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 71 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 59 stated by Wikidata.

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