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Persi Diaconis

American mathematicianborn 1945

Wikidata names Dennis Hejhal and Frederick Mosteller as doctoral advisors and lists 58 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Persi Diaconis, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata58

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 134 people: 134 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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