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Larry Guth

American mathematicianborn 1976

Supervised 13 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Tomasz Mrowka as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Students13

cited by a thesis record
Alex Cohen “Higher dimensional fractal uncertainty”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Shengwen Gan “The restricted projection problems”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Luis Kumanduri “Homotopically nontrivial area contracting maps”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sarah Tammen “Incidence Problems for Slabs”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lingxian Zhang “Application of high-low method to distance problems”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sahana Vasudevan “Large genus bounds for the distribution of triangulated surfaces in moduli space”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Alexey Balitskiy “Bounds on Urysohn width”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Aleksandr Berdnikov “Lipschitz homotopies of mappings from 3-sphere to 2-sphere”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Robin Elliott “Quantitative Topology of Loop Space”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Thao Thi Thu Do “Semi-algebraic graphs and hypergraphs in incidence geometry”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Hong Wang “A restriction estimate in R³”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Hannah Alpert “Special gradient trajectories counted by simplex straightening”
2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dominic Dotterrer “The (Co)isoperimetric Problem in (Random) Polyhedra”
2014 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Tomasz Mrowka

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Hong Wang
born 1991
stated by Wikidata
Alex Cohen
stated by Wikidata
Dominic Dotterrer
stated by Wikidata
Hannah Alpert
stated by Wikidata
Thao Thi Thu Do

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataTomasz Mrowka
2 steps up
stated by WikidataClifford Taubesstated by WikidataRobion Kirby
3 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Jaffestated by WikidataEldon Dyer
4 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Wightmanstated by WikidataR. L. Moore

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 18 people: 13 cited by thesis records, 5 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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undated
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
studied
undated
University of Toronto
worked
undated
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher
fields: mathematics
awards: Salem Prize, 2013, Clay Research Award, 2015, New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, 2016, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2019, Bôcher Memorial Prize, 2020, Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics, 2020
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Mathematical Society, from 2018, National Academy of Sciences, from 2021
Wikipedia: in 9 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaLarry Guth
stated by WikidataWikidataQ6490439
stated by WikidataVIAF2043145857167222922713
stated by WikidataGND1106273656
stated by WikidataIdRef194485331
stated by WikidataISNI0000000455092715

papers

stated by WikidataDBLP156/2731

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project34061

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Read on 30 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q6490439,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Larry Guth: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q6490439},
  note = {read on 2026-10-30}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 30). Larry Guth: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-30]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q6490439