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Kurt Otto Friedrichs

German-American mathematician1901 to 1982

Wikidata names Richard Courant as doctoral advisor and lists 36 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Kurt Otto Friedrichs, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata36

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Louis Nirenberg

    born 1925

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 530 people: 530 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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