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Clarence Raymond Adams

American mathematician1898 to 1965

Wikidata names George David Birkhoff as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and Wikipedia.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata9

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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 141 people: 141 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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