Academic Ancestry

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Dana Scott

American mathematician and computer scientistborn 1932

Wikidata names Alonzo Church as doctoral advisor and lists 51 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata51

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Lloyd Humberstone

    born 1949

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 371 people: 371 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career11

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