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Peter Hilton

British mathematician1923 to 2010

Wikidata names J. H. C. Whitehead and John W. Hutchinson as doctoral advisors and lists 28 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata28

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 58 people: 58 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career13

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