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Lars Ahlfors

Finnish mathematician1907 to 1996

Wikidata names Ernst Leonard Lindelöf and Rolf Nevanlinna as doctoral advisors and lists 29 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Lars Ahlfors, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata29

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

    Rolf Nevanlinna

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 392 people: 392 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career9

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