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Bartel Leendert van der Waerden

Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics1903 to 1996

Wikidata names Hendrik de Vries as doctoral advisor and lists 34 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata34

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

    Emmy Noether

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

    Otto E. Neugebauer

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 483 people: 483 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career10

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