Academic Ancestry

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William Shaw

British professor and mathematicianborn 1958

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Oxford in 2008; Wikidata names Kenneth Paul Tod and Roger Penrose as doctoral advisors and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

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 11 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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