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Cyrus Derman

American mathematician1925 to 2011

Wikidata names Chung Kai-lai and Ted Harris as doctoral advisors and lists 17 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Cyrus Derman, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata17

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 160 people: 160 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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