Nigel Boston: advisors and students

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Nigel Boston

British-American mathematician1961 to 2024

Supervised 14 doctoral students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wikidata names Barry Mazur as doctoral advisor and lists 39 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 4 other registers.

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Students14

cited by a thesis record
John Jossey “Galois 2 Groups Unramified Outside 2”
2006 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nadya Markin “Galois Groups With Restricted Ramification”
2006 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
You-Chiang Yi “On the Modularity of Higher-Dimensional Varieties”
2005 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michael Raymond Bush “P-Class Towers of Imaginary Quadratic Fields”
2004 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mona Barakat Musa “On Dihedral Codes and the Double Circulant Conjecture for Binary Extended Quadratic Residue Codes”
2004 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bogdan Petrenko “Primitive Elements in Finite Fields”
2004 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Thomas Kuhnt “Generalizations of Golod -Shafarevich and Applications”
2002 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mark L. Bauer “Function Field Arithmetic and Related Algorithms”
2001 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Douglas Andrew Kuhlman “On the Orders of Jacobians of Hyperelliptic Curves”
2000 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sharon Ann Brueggeman “Number Fields Which Are Ramified Only at One Small Prime”
1999 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Darrin Matthew Doud “Deformations of Three-Dimensional Galois Representations”
1999 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David Michael Perry “Maximal 2-Extensions of Number Fields With Limited Ramification”
1999 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Boris Iskra “Families of Rank Zero Twists of Elliptic Curves”
1998 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David Thomas Ose “Toward a deformation theory for Galois representations of function fields”
1995 · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Barry Mazur

Students on Wikidata39

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Gebhard Böckle
born 1964
stated by Wikidata
Judy L. Walker
born 1969
stated by Wikidata
Bogdan V. Petrenko
stated by Wikidata
Boris Iskra
stated by Wikidata
Brandon Alberts
stated by Wikidata
Bret Jordan Benesh
stated by Wikidata
Christopher Holden
stated by Wikidata
Darrin Doud
stated by Wikidata
David Conti
stated by Wikidata
David Perry
stated by Wikidata
David Thomas Ose
stated by Wikidata
Douglas Andrew Kuhlman
stated by Wikidata
Harris Nover
stated by Wikidata
Jay Wierer
stated by Wikidata
Jing Hao
stated by Wikidata
John Jossey
stated by Wikidata
Jonathan Blackhurst
stated by Wikidata
Kejia Wang
stated by Wikidata
Mark L. Bauer
stated by Wikidata
Matthew Darnall
stated by Wikidata
Meghan DeWitt
stated by Wikidata
Mehmet Haluk Şengün
stated by Wikidata
Michael Raymond Bush
stated by Wikidata
Mona Barakat Musa
stated by Wikidata
Nadya Markin
stated by Wikidata
Qian Zhang
stated by Wikidata
Rachel Davis
stated by Wikidata
Ryan Julian
stated by Wikidata
Sharon Brueggeman
stated by Wikidata
Thomas Kuhnt
stated by Wikidata
Ting-Ting Nan
stated by Wikidata
Vefa Göksel
stated by Wikidata
Walter Casimir Dabrowski
stated by Wikidata
Wei-Yang Lin
stated by Wikidata
William Leonard Cocke
stated by Wikidata
Yihsiang Liow
stated by Wikidata
You-Chiang Yi
stated by Wikidata
Yuan Liu
stated by Wikidata
Zachary Charles

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 WikidataBarry Mazur
2 steps up
stated by WikidataR. H. Bingstated by WikidataRalph Fox
3 steps up
stated by WikidataR. L. Moorestated by WikidataSolomon Lefschetz
4 steps up
stated by WikidataEliakim Hastings Moorestated by WikidataOswald Veblenstated by WikidataWilliam Edward Story

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 69 people: 14 cited by thesis records, 55 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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

2002 to 2019
University of Wisconsin–Madison
worked
undated
Harvard University
studied

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher
fields: mathematic
awards: Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
member of: American Mathematical Society, from 2012
Wikipedia: in 4 languages

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

Elsewhere6

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaNigel Boston
stated by WikidataWikidataQ7032256
stated by WikidataVIAF258929826
stated by WikidataISNI0000000379967259

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lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project12419

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Nigel Boston: advisors and students}},
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, November 5). Nigel Boston: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-11-05]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q7032256