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David E. Muller

American mathematician1924 to 2008

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989; Wikidata names Jesse DuMond as doctoral advisor and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata16

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 108 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 107 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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