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William Goldman

American mathematicianborn 1955

Wikidata names Morris Hirsch and William Thurston as doctoral advisors and lists 28 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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William Goldman, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata28

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 39 people: 39 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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