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Walter Kummer

1875 to 1962

Supervised 9 doctoral students at ETH Zurich between 1912 and 1930; Wikidata names Alfred Kleiner and Heinrich Friedrich Weber as doctoral advisors and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Walter Kummer, pictured

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Students9

Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata2

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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 11 people: 9 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

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