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Pierre-Simon Laplace

French mathematician and astronomer1749 to 1827

Wikidata names Jean Le Rond d'Alembert as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

The line above and below4 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 34 people: 34 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career6

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