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Terence Tao

Australian-American mathematicianborn 1975

Wikidata names Elias M. Stein as doctoral advisor, lists 18 doctoral students, and names Paul Erdős as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Terence Tao, 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 Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Paul Erdős

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 23 people: 23 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex202

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    T. W. Körner

    120 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Ben Green

    42 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Van Vu

    35 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Christoph M. Thiele

    28 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    M. Keel

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Camil Muscalu

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    J. Colliander

    17 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Tamar Ziegler

    17 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Van H. Vu

    16 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Gigliola Staffilani

    14 shared works

OpenAlex lists 192 more people who share a work with them.