Academic Ancestry

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Cyrus Colton MacDuffee

American mathematician1895 to 1961

Wikidata names Leonard Eugene Dickson as doctoral advisor, lists 30 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata30

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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 supervision

    Gloria Olive

    born 1923

The line above and below3 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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 165 people: 165 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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