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Horace Lamb

English mathematician (*1849 – †1934)1849 to 1934

Wikidata names James Clerk Maxwell and Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet as doctoral advisors, names Henry Martyn Taylor and Thomas Barker as teachers, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Horace Lamb, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Henry Martyn Taylor

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Thomas Barker

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Lorna Swain

    born 1891

The line above and below4 steps

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.

Education and career8

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