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Gerhard Pfister

German mathematicianborn 1947

Supervised 8 doctoral students at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern between 2005 and 2016; Wikidata names Herbert Kurke as doctoral advisor and lists 26 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Gerhard Pfister, 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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Students8

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata26

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 45 people: 8 cited by thesis records, 37 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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