Academic Ancestry

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Frans van Schooten

Dutch cartographer and draughtsman1581 to 1646

Wikidata names Ludolph van Ceulen and S.F. van Merwen as doctoral advisors and names S.F. van Merwen as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 3 other registers.

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Frans van Schooten, 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 Wikidata2

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

    S.F. van Merwen

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.

Education and career3

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