Academic Ancestry

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Sheldon M. Ross

American mathematicianborn 1943

Wikidata names Cyrus Derman and Gerald J. Lieberman as doctoral advisors and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 3 people: 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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