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E. T. Whittaker

Also known as Edmund Taylor Whittaker (OpenAlex)

British mathematician1873 to 1956

Wikidata names Andrew Forsyth and George Howard Darwin as doctoral advisors, lists 12 doctoral students, names Ernest William Hobson as teacher, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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E. T. Whittaker, 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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

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.

Taught4

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

    G.H. Hardy

    born 1877
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    G. N. Watson

    born 1886
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Pierre Humbert

    born 1891
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington

    born 1908

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 355 people: 355 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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