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Richard McGehee

American mathematicianborn 1943

Supervised 15 doctoral students between 2014 and 2026; Wikidata names Charles C. Conley as doctoral advisor and lists 18 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Students15

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

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 50 people: 15 cited by thesis records, 35 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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