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William Kantor

Also known as William M. Kantor (OpenAlex)

American mathematicianborn 1944

Wikidata names Peter Dembowski and Richard Bruck as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata7

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 27 people: 27 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex70

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Alexander Lubotzky

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Ákos Seress

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Martin Kassabov

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robert M. Guralnick

    7 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Gary M. Seitz

    7 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Peter J‎. Cameron

    6 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    László Babai

    5 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Ulrich Dempwolff

    5 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Lino Di Martino

    5 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robert A. Liebler

    4 shared works

OpenAlex lists 60 more people who share a work with them.