Academic Ancestry

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Leonard Eugene Dickson

American mathematician1874 to 1954

Wikidata names Eliakim Hastings Moore as doctoral advisor, lists 68 doctoral students, names George Bruce Halsted as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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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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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata68

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    R. L. Moore

    born 1882
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    William Henry Bussey

The line above and below2 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 458 people: 458 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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