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Sigurður Helgason

Icelandic mathematician1927 to 2023

Wikidata names Salomon Bochner as doctoral advisor and lists 17 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Sigurður Helgason, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata17

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 66 people: 66 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career9

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