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Bryan Birch

British mathematicianborn 1931

Supervised 2 doctoral students at University of Oxford in 1996; Wikidata names J. W. S. Cassels as doctoral advisor and lists 22 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Bryan Birch, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata22

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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 115 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 113 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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