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Saunders Mac Lane

American mathematician1909 to 2005

Wikidata names Hermann Weyl and Paul Bernays as doctoral advisors and lists 42 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata42

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 909 people: 909 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career11

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