Academic Ancestry

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Veniamin Kagan

Russian mathematician1869 to 1953

Wikidata names Andrey Markov and Konstantin Posse as doctoral advisors, lists 10 doctoral students, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 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 Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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

    Pyotr Rashevsky

    born 1907
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Viktor Wagner

    born 1908
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Vasily Kostin

    born 1910
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Isaak Yaglom

    born 1921

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 171 people: 171 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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