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Richard P. Stanley

American mathematicianborn 1944

Supervised 44 doctoral students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Gian-Carlo Rota as doctoral advisor and lists 60 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Richard P. Stanley, pictured

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Students44

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata60

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 314 people: 63 cited by thesis records, 251 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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