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C. T. C. Wall

British mathematicianborn 1936

Wikidata names Christopher Zeeman and Frank Adams as doctoral advisors, lists 19 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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C. T. C. Wall, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    David Trotman

    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 190 people: 190 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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