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Ky Fan

Chinese-American mathematician1914 to 2010

Wikidata names Maurice René Fréchet as doctoral advisor and lists 23 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata23

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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 99 people: 99 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career8

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