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Graham Higman

British mathematician1917 to 2008

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Oxford; doctorate at University of Oxford in 1940; Wikidata names J. H. C. Whitehead as doctoral advisor and lists 51 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Graham Higman, pictured

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata51

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 517 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 516 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career7

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

Works1

1940 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?