Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Ivar Ekeland

French mathematicianborn 1944

Wikidata names Jacques Neveu and Robert Pallu de la Barrière as doctoral advisors, lists 11 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jean-Michel Lasry

    born 1947
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ngalla Djitté

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 56 people: 56 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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