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Walter Gander

Swiss computer scientist and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (born 1944)born 1944

Supervised 15 doctoral students at ETH Zurich; doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1973 under Peter Henrici and Carl August Zehnder; Wikidata names Peter Läuchli as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors2

The thesis record names Peter Henrici and Carl August Zehnder; Wikidata names Peter Läuchli.

  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Peter Henrici“Numerische Implementationen des Rombergschen Extrapolationsverfahren, mit Anwendungen auf die Summation unendlicher Reihen”

    1973 · ETH Zurich · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis record

    Carl August Zehnder“Numerische Implementationen des Rombergschen Extrapolationsverfahren, mit Anwendungen auf die Summation unendlicher Reihen”

    1973 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students15

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 24 people: 15 cited by thesis records, 9 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career2

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Works1

1973 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?