Joseph Kruskal: advisors and students

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Joseph Kruskal

American statistician1928 to 2010

Wikidata names Paul Erdős and Roger Lyndon as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Paul Erdős
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Roger Lyndon

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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.

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stated by WikidataPaul Erdősstated by WikidataRoger Lyndon
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stated by WikidataLipót Fejérstated by WikidataSaunders Mac Lane
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stated by WikidataHermann Schwarzstated by WikidataHermann Weylstated by WikidataPaul Bernays
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stated by WikidataDavid Hilbertstated by WikidataEdmund Landaustated by WikidataErnst Kummerstated by WikidataKarl Weierstraß

Theses

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The Theory of Well-partially-ordered Sets
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career5

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1946 to 1949
University of Chicago
studied
1950 to 1954
Princeton University
studied
1950 to 1956
Office of Naval Research
worked
1956 to 1959
University of Wisconsin–Madison
worked
1959 to 1993
Bell Labs
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, statistician, computer scientist, university teacher
fields: applied mathematics, statistics, psychometrics, combinatorics, algorithm, mathematic
awards: Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1971
member of: Congress of Racial Equality
notable works: Kruskal's algorithm, Kruskal's tree theorem, Kruskal–Katona theorem, Well-Quasi-Ordering, The Tree Theorem, and Vazsonyi's Conjecture, On the shortest spanning subtree of a graph and the traveling salesman problem
Wikipedia: in 21 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJoseph Kruskal
stated by WikidataWikidataQ983361
stated by WikidataVIAF92004116
stated by WikidataGND143080903
stated by WikidataIdRef050204793
stated by WikidataISNI0000000110310799

papers

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stated by WikidataScopus7005436024

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project7714

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Joseph Kruskal: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
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  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Joseph Kruskal: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q983361