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David Jerison

Mathematician

Supervised 4 doctoral students and 1 master's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1989 and 2012; Wikidata names Elias M. Stein as doctoral advisor and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 2 other registers.

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David Jerison, pictured

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Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata10

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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 14 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 10 stated by Wikidata.

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