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Godfried Toussaint

Canadian computer scientist1944 to 2019

Supervised 2 doctoral students and 1 master's student at McGill University between 1994 and 1998; Wikidata names Robert Wellington Donaldson as doctoral advisor and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Godfried Toussaint, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata16

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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.

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