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Erhard Schmidt

German mathematician1876 to 1959

Wikidata names David Hilbert as doctoral advisor and lists 43 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Erhard Schmidt, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata43

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.

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

    Hermann Schwarz

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 2005 people: 2,005 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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