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Gian-Carlo Rota

American mathematician and philosopher1932 to 1999

Supervised 13 doctoral students (14 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Jacob T. Schwartz as doctoral advisor and lists 49 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Gian-Carlo Rota, pictured

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Students14

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata49

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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 458 people: 13 cited by thesis records, 445 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career8

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