Academic Ancestry

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Élie Cartan

French mathematician1869 to 1951

Wikidata names Jean Gaston Darboux and Sophus Lie as doctoral advisors, lists 29 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Élie Cartan, 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.

Students on Wikidata29

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Shiing-Shen Chern

    born 1911
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Paulette Libermann

    born 1919

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 248 people: 248 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career10

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