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Wilhelm Killing

German mathematician1847 to 1923

Wikidata names Ernst Kummer and Karl Weierstraß as doctoral advisors and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Wilhelm Killing, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata13

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 13 people: 13 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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