Academic Ancestry

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Leonard Jimmie Savage

American mathematician1917 to 1971

Wikidata names Sumner Byron Myers as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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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.

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 283 people: 283 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career10

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