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Mihailo Petrović

Serbian mathematician and philosopher (*1868 – †1943)1868 to 1943

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Универзитет у Београду, Филозофски факултет; Wikidata names Charles Hermite, Charles Émile Picard, and Henri Poincaré as doctoral advisors, lists 11 doctoral students, and names Dimitrije Nešić as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Mihailo Petrović, pictured

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

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.

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 277 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 275 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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