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Karl Weierstraß

German mathematician1815 to 1897

Wikidata names Christoph Gudermann as doctoral advisor and lists 47 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Karl Weierstraß, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata47

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught10

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

    Nikolai Bugaev

    born 1837
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Carl Itzigsohn

    born 1840
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Arnold Meyer

    born 1844
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alfred Pringsheim

    born 1850
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Heinrich Leonhard

    born 1854
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Dmitry Selivanov

    born 1855
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Józef Puzyna

    born 1856
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Adolf Hurwitz

    born 1859
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Edmund Husserl

    born 1859
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hermann Minkowski

    born 1864

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 772 people: 772 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career8

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