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David Blackwell

American mathematician1919 to 2010

Wikidata names Joseph Leo Doob as doctoral advisor and lists 66 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 9 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata66

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 320 people: 320 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career6

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex34

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Richard Bellman

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Meyer A. Girshick

    6 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Lester E. Dubins

    5 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Leo Breiman

    4 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Aram J. Thomasian

    3 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    J. L. Hodges

    3 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Kenneth Joseph Arrow

    2 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    James B. MacQueen

    1 shared work
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Stefan Vajda

    1 shared work
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Thomas S. Ferguson

    1 shared work

OpenAlex lists 24 more people who share a work with them.