Academic Ancestry

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George Zames

Canadian control theorist1934 to 1997

Supervised 1 doctoral student at McGill University; Wikidata names Lee Yuk-Wing and Norbert Wiener as doctoral advisors and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 3 other registers.

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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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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below3 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 14 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 13 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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