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Béla Bollobás

Hungarian mathematicianborn 1943

Supervised 3 doctoral students; Wikidata names Frank Adams, László Fejes Tóth, and Paul Erdős as doctoral advisors and lists 65 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Béla Bollobás, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Students3

Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata65

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 225 people: 3 cited by thesis records, 222 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage1

committee member, not advisor