Academic Ancestry

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Scott Sheffield

American mathematicianborn 1973

Supervised 6 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Amir Dembo as doctoral advisor and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Scott Sheffield, 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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Students6

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata8

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 14 people: 6 cited by thesis records, 8 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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