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Oswald Veblen

American mathematician1880 to 1960

Wikidata names Eliakim Hastings Moore as doctoral advisor and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata16

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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 1118 people: 1,118 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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