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Alexander Gelfond

Russian mathematician1906 to 1968

Wikidata names Aleksandr Khinchin and Vyacheslav Stepanov as doctoral advisors, lists 15 doctoral students, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata15

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught4

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

    Mikhail Platonov

    born 1913
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Andrey Shidlovsky

    born 1915
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Nikolay Korobov

    born 1917
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Mikhail Shabunin

    born 1930

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 86 people: 86 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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