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Christopher Zeeman

British mathematician1925 to 2016

Wikidata names Shaun Wylie as doctoral advisor and lists 29 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata29

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 543 people: 543 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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    doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career10

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