Academic Ancestry

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Anatole Katok

American mathematician1944 to 2018

Supervised 4 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Yakov Sinai as doctoral advisor, lists 44 doctoral students, and names Yakov Sinai as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Anatole Katok, pictured

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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students4

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata44

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.

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

    Yakov Sinai

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 123 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 119 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Sat beside the lineage4

committee member, not advisor