Academic Ancestry

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Sergei Novikov

Soviet and Russian mathematician1938 to 2024

Wikidata names Mikhail Postnikov as doctoral advisor, lists 39 doctoral students, names Mikhail Postnikov as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata39

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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

    Aleksandr Mishchenko

    born 1941
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Viktor Buchstaber

    born 1943

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 212 people: 212 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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