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Andrzej Mostowski

Polish mathematician1913 to 1975

Wikidata names Alfred Tarski and Kazimierz Kuratowski as doctoral advisors, lists 18 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Andrzej Mostowski, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Jan Kalicki

    born 1922
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Karol Sauerland

    born 1936
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jerzy Pogonowski

    born 1951

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 217 people: 217 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career6

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