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Sergey Nikolsky

Soviet and Russian mathematician1905 to 2012

Wikidata names Andrey Kolmogorov as doctoral advisor, lists 11 doctoral students, names Andrey Kolmogorov as teacher, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Sergey Nikolsky, 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 Wikidata11

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.

Taught4

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

    Vladyslav Dziadyk

    born 1919
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Nickolay Korneichuk

    born 1920
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Petr Lizorkin

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

    Oleg Besov

    born 1933

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 130 people: 130 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career9

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