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Ernest William Hobson

British mathematician1856 to 1933

Wikidata lists 3 doctoral students and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Ernest William Hobson, pictured

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Students on Wikidata3

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Taught4

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

    Philippa Fawcett

    born 1868
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    E. T. Whittaker

    born 1873
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ernest Barnes

    born 1874
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    John Maynard Keynes

    born 1883

The line above and below

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 3 people: 3 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career5

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