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Donald Burkholder

American mathematician1927 to 2013

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wikidata names Wassily Hoeffding as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Donald Burkholder, pictured

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

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 126 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 125 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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