Academic Ancestry

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Abram Fet

Russian mathematician1924 to 2007

Wikidata names Lazar Lyusternik as doctoral advisor, lists 3 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Abram Fet, 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 Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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

    Viktor Toponogov

    born 1930
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Valentin Diskant

    born 1934

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 10 people: 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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