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Jacques-Louis Lions

French mathematician (*1928 – †2001)1928 to 2001

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Université Paris VI; Wikidata names Laurent Schwartz as doctoral advisor, lists 47 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Jacques-Louis Lions, 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

Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata47

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

    Pierre Schapira

    born 1943

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 1863 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 1,858 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career7

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

Sat beside the lineage1

jury member, not advisor