Academic Ancestry

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David Mumford

British/American mathematicianborn 1937

Wikidata names Oscar Zariski as doctoral advisor, lists 49 doctoral students, and names Oscar Zariski as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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David Mumford, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata49

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.

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

    Oscar Zariski

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 189 people: 189 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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