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Sheldon Axler

American mathematicianborn 1949

Wikidata names Donald Sarason as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 18 people: 18 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career13

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex71

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

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    Paul Bourdon

    26 shared works
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    Wade C. Ramey

    26 shared works
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    Kenneth A. Ribet

    7 shared works
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    Allen L. Shields

    6 shared works
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    Volker Runde

    6 shared works
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    Donald E. Sarason

    5 shared works
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    Pamela B. Gorkin

    5 shared works
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    Peter Rosenthal

    4 shared works
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    Dechao Zheng

    3 shared works
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    Željko Čučković

    2 shared works

OpenAlex lists 61 more people who share a work with them.