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Lloyd N. Trefethen

British mathematician specialized in numerical analysisborn 1955

Supervised 5 doctoral students at University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Oxford University, UK between 1989 and 2016; Wikidata names Joseph Oliger as doctoral advisor and lists 17 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata17

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 92 people: 24 cited by thesis records, 69 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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