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Jacob Wolfowitz

American statistician1910 to 1981

Wikidata names Donald Alexander Flanders as doctoral advisor, lists 8 doctoral students, and names Abraham Wald and Harold Hotelling as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Jacob Wolfowitz, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Theses

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata8

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

    Abraham Wald

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

    Harold Hotelling

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 170 people: 170 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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