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John Edensor Littlewood

English mathematician1885 to 1977

Wikidata names Ernest Barnes 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

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata23

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

    Srinivasa Ramanujan

    born 1887
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Raymond Paley

    born 1907

The line above and below2 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 542 people: 542 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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