Academic Ancestry

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Silas D. Alben

American mathematician

Wikidata names Michael Shelley as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and Wikipedia.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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