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Gordon Preston

British mathematician1925 to 2015

Wikidata names E. C. Thomson and J. H. C. Whitehead as doctoral advisors and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata9

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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 56 people: 56 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career9

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