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Don Zagier

American mathematicianborn 1951

Supervised 4 doctoral students; Wikidata names Friedrich Hirzebruch as doctoral advisor, lists 23 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 8 other registers.

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Don Zagier, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students4

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata23

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Svetlana Katok

    born 1947
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Maxim Kontsevich

    born 1964
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Maryna Viazovska

    born 1984

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 88 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 84 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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