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David Avis

British mathematicianborn 1951

Supervised 2 doctoral students and 9 master's students at McGill University between 1996 and 2011; Wikidata names Václav Chvátal as doctoral advisor and lists 12 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students11

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata12

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