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Lothar Collatz

German mathematician1910 to 1990

Wikidata names Alfred Klose and Erhard Schmidt as doctoral advisors and lists 52 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata52

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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 775 people: 775 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career9

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