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Barry Mazur

American mathematicianborn 1937

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names R. H. Bing and Ralph Fox as doctoral advisors and lists 57 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Barry Mazur, pictured

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata57

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 302 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 300 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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