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Boris Katz

Moldovan academicborn 1947

Supervised 8 doctoral students, 50 master's students, and 1 bachelor's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1998 and 2025; Wikidata lists 3 doctoral students and names Evgenii Landis as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 2 other registers.

Boris Katz, pictured

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    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 14 people: 9 cited by thesis records, 5 stated by Wikidata.

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