Mathematical Genealogy

The following information comes from The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Links are provided for some of the mathematicians who are profiled at the MacTutor History of Mathematics web site.

Each name is followed on the line below by the name of that person's Ph.D. advisor (or major mentor). The institution where the Ph.D. was awarded, and the year granted, are given in parentheses.

• Alan Koch (State University of New York at Albany, 1995)
• Lindsay Childs (Cornell University, 1966)
• Alex Rosenberg (The University of Chicago, 1951)
• Irving Kaplansky (Harvard University, 1941)
• Saunders Mac Lane (Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, 1934)
  • Hermann Weyl (Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, 1908)
    • David Hilbert (Universitat Konigsberg, 1885)
    • C. L. Ferdinand Lindemann (Universitat Erlangen-Numberg, 1873)
    • Felix Klein (Universitat Bonn, 1868)
      • Julius Plucker (Universitat Marburg, 1823)
        • Christian Gerling (Universitat Gottingen, 1812)
        • Carl Gauss (Universitat Helmstedt, 1799)
        • Johann Pfaff (Universitat Gottingen, 1786)
        • Abraham Kaestner (Universitat Leipzig, 1739)
        • Christian Hausen (Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, 1713)
        • Johann Wichmannshausen (Universitat Leipzig, 1685)
        • Otto Mencken
      • Rudolf Lipschitz (Universitat Berlin, 1853)
        • Gustav Dirichlet (Universitat Bonn, 1827)
        • Jean-Baptiste Fourier and Simeon Poisson
        • Joseph Lagrange
        • Leonhard Euler (Universitat Basel, 1726)
        • Johann Bernoulli (1694)
        • Jacob Bernoulli
  • Paul Bernays (Universitat Gottingen, 1912)
    • Edmund Landau (Universitat Berlin, 1899)
    • Georg Frobenius (Universitat Berlin, 1870) and Lazarus Fuchs (Universitat Berlin, 1858)
      • Karl Weierstrass (Universitat Konigsberg, 1854)
        • Christoph Gudermann (Universitat Gottingen, 1841)
        • Carl Friedrich Gauss (Universitat Helmstedt, 1799)
        • Johann Friedrich Pfaff (Universitat Gottingen, 1786)
        • Abraham Kaestner (Universitat Leipzig, 1739)
        • Christian August Hausen (Universitat Wittenberg, 1713)
        • Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (Universitat Leipzig, 1685)
        • Otto Mencke (Universitat Leipzig, 1666)
      • Ernst Eduard Kummer (Universitat Wittenberg, 1831)
        • Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (Universitat Berlin, 1823)
          • Friedrich Bessel (Universitat Gottingen, 1810)
            • Carl Friedrich Gauss (Universitat Helmstedt, 1799)
            • Johann Friedrich Pfaff (Universitat Gottingen, 1786)
            • Abraham Kastner (Universitat Leipzig, 1739)
            • Christian August Hausen (Universitat Wittenberg, 1713)
            • Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (Universitat Leipzig, 1685)
            • Otto Mencke (Universitat Leipzig, 1666)
          • Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (Universitat Gottingen, 1800)
            • Abraham Kastner (Universitat Leipzig, 1739)
            • Christian August Hausen (Universitat Wittenberg, 1713)
            • Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (Universitat Leipzig, 1685)
            • Otto Mencke (Universitat Leipzig, 1666)

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