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George David Birkhoff

American mathematician1884 to 1944

Wikidata names Eliakim Hastings Moore as doctoral advisor and lists 46 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata46

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Harry Vandiver

    born 1882

The line above and below2 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 1092 people: 1,092 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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