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Richard Kenyon

American mathematicianborn 1964

Supervised 2 doctoral students; Wikidata names William Thurston as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Richard Kenyon, pictured

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 12 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex66

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

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    David B. Wilson

    14 shared works
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    Boris Solomyak

    8 shared works
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    Scott Sheffield⋆

    7 shared works
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    Yuval Peres

    7 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Andrei Yur'evich Okounkov

    5 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Lorenzo A. Sadun

    5 shared works
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    Peter M. Winkler

    5 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Cosmin Pohoata

    5 shared works
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    Maxim Kontsevich

    5 shared works
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    James Gary Propp

    4 shared works

OpenAlex lists 56 more people who share a work with them.