Academic Ancestry

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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

Russian mathematician1929 to 2009

Wikidata names Alexander Buchstab as doctoral advisor, lists 16 doctoral students, and names Alexander Buchstab and Israel Gelfand as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, pictured

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 Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata16

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

    Alexander Buchstab

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

    Israel Gelfand

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 186 people: 186 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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