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Reinhard Diestel

German mathematicianborn 1959

Supervised 29 doctoral students at Universität Hamburg; Wikidata names Béla Bollobás as doctoral advisor and lists 22 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Reinhard Diestel, pictured

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Students29

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata22

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 60 people: 30 cited by thesis records, 31 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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