Academic Ancestry

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James Joseph Sylvester

English mathematician1814 to 1897

Wikidata lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

James Joseph Sylvester, pictured

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Students on Wikidata8

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

The line above and below

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 15 people: 15 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career10

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