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Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist1777 to 1855

Wikidata names Johann Friedrich Pfaff as doctoral advisor and lists 15 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 Wikidata15

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.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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 106 people: 106 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career4

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