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Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen

Dutch mathematician1913 to 2003

Wikidata names Johannes Droste as doctoral advisor and lists 14 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen, pictured

Two steps up and one down. 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 Wikidata14

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 116 people: 116 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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