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William Thurston

American mathematician1946 to 2012

Wikidata names Morris Hirsch as doctoral advisor, lists 35 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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William Thurston, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata35

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.

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 277 people: 277 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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