Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Gang Tian

Chinese mathematicianborn 1958

Wikidata names Shing-Tung Yau as doctoral advisor and lists 55 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData
Gang Tian, pictured

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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata55

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Chong Song

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

    Yury Ustinovskiy

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 82 people: 82 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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