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Donald C. Spencer

American mathematician1912 to 2001

Wikidata names G.H. Hardy and John Edensor Littlewood as doctoral advisors and lists 29 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata29

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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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 659 people: 659 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career8

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