Academic Ancestry

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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Indian scientist and statistician1893 to 1972

Wikidata names William Herrick Macaulay as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and names William Herrick Macaulay as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

The line above and below1 step

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 75 people: 75 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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