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Ernst Kummer

German mathematician1810 to 1893

Wikidata names Heinrich Scherk as doctoral advisor and lists 58 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata58

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught4

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

    Ferdinand Joachimsthal

    born 1818
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Leopold Kronecker

    born 1823
  • 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

    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 814 people: 814 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career6

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