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Augustus De Morgan

British mathematician and logician1806 to 1871

Wikidata names George Peacock and William Whewell as doctoral advisors and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors3

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

    George Peacock

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

    John Philips Higman

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

    William Whewell

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

    Ada Lovelace

    born 1815
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    William Stanley Jevons

    born 1835

The line above and below1 step

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 34 people: 34 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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