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Norbert Wiener

American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence1894 to 1964

Wikidata names Josiah Royce and Karl Schmidt as doctoral advisors and lists 18 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata18

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Raymond Paley

    born 1907
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Amar Bose

    born 1929

The line above and below2 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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 376 people: 376 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career11

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