Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Shiing-Shen Chern

Chinese-American mathematician and poet1911 to 2004

Wikidata names Wilhelm Blaschke as doctoral advisor, lists 43 doctoral students, names Jiang Lifu, Solomon Lefschetz, Sun Guangyuan, and Élie Cartan as teachers, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 9 other registers.

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Shiing-Shen Chern, 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 Wikidata43

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors4

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

    Jiang Lifu

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Solomon Lefschetz

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sun Guangyuan

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Élie Cartan

Taught2

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

    Chen-ning Yang

    born 1922
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Shing-Tung Yau

    born 1949

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 890 people: 890 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career11

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