Academic Ancestry

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Alfred Tarski

Polish-American logician1901 to 1983

Wikidata names Stanisław Leśniewski as doctoral advisor, lists 26 doctoral students, names Jan Łukasiewicz as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Alfred Tarski, 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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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata26

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

    Jan Łukasiewicz

Taught2

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

    Julia Hall Bowman Robinson

    born 1919
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jan Kalicki

    born 1922

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 471 people: 471 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career8

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