Academic Ancestry

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Leslie Fox

British mathematician1918 to 1992

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Oxford University; Wikidata names Richard V. Southwell as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata6

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 132 people: 6 cited by thesis records, 126 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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