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Hermann Minkowski

German mathematician and physicist1864 to 1909

Wikidata names Ferdinand von Lindemann as doctoral advisor and lists 7 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 Wikidata7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors6

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

    Ernst Kummer

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

    Gustav Kirchhoff

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

    Hermann von Helmholtz

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

    Karl Weierstraß

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

    Leopold Kronecker

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

    Woldemar Voigt

Taught2

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

    Walther Ritz

    born 1878
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Albert Einstein

    born 1879

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 145 people: 145 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career9

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