Academic Ancestry

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Heisuke Hironaka

Japanese mathematician1931 to 2026

Wikidata names Oscar Zariski as doctoral advisor, lists 17 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Heisuke Hironaka, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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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.

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

    June Huh

    born 1983

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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 176 people: 176 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career8

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