Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Mikhail Postnikov

Russian mathematician1927 to 2004

Wikidata names Lev Pontryagin as doctoral advisor, lists 10 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Sergei Novikov

    born 1938
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Andrei Bolibrukh

    born 1950

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 201 people: 201 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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