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Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer1629 to 1695
Wikidata names Frans van Schooten and Jan Jansz de Jonge Stampioen as doctoral advisors, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1646
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 supervisionborn 1646
- a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervisionborn 1647
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.
- 1 step up
stated by WikidataFrans van Schootenstated by WikidataJan Jansz de Jonge Stampioen
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataJacobus Goliusstated by WikidataMarin Mersenne
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataThomas van Erpestated by WikidataWillebrord Snellius
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataJoseph Justus Scaligerstated by WikidataLudolph van Ceulenstated by WikidataRudolph Snellius
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 11 people: 11 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career4
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
- 1645 to 1647studied
- 1647 to 1649studied
- until 1655studied
- 1666 to 1681