Academic Ancestry

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Matthias Kreck

German mathematicianborn 1947

Supervised 4 doctoral students; Wikidata names Friedrich Hirzebruch as doctoral advisor, lists 20 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 6 other registers.

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Matthias Kreck, 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

Students4

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata20

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Arthur Bartels

    born 1971

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 81 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 77 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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