Academic Ancestry

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John Fitch

British mathematician and computer scientistborn 1945

Wikidata names David Barton as doctoral advisor and lists 19 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 Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below3 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 37 people: 37 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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