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Karl Menger

Austrian mathematician1902 to 1985

Wikidata names Hans Hahn as doctoral advisor and lists 18 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata18

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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 252 people: 252 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career8

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