Academic Ancestry

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Michael Artin

American mathematicianborn 1934

Supervised 10 doctoral students and 1 master's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1970 and 1999; Wikidata names Oscar Zariski as doctoral advisor, lists 33 doctoral students, and names Oscar Zariski as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Michael Artin, 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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Theses

Students11

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata33

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Oscar Zariski

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 174 people: 10 cited by thesis records, 164 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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