Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Henk van der Vorst

Dutch mathematicianborn 1944

Wikidata names Abraham van der Sluis as doctoral advisor, lists 24 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata24

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

    Arno Swart

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 50 people: 50 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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