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.

• Jim Wiseman (Northwestern University, 2001)
• John Franks (Univeristy of California, Berkeley, 1968)
• Stephen Smale (University of Michigan, 1957)
• Raoul Bott (Carnegie-Mellon University, 1949)
• Richard Duffin (University of Illinois, 1935)
  • Harold Mott-Smith (University of Illinois, 1933
    • Robert Carnichael (Princeton University, 1911)
    • George David Birkhoff (University of Chicago, 1907)
    • E. H. Moore (Yale University, 1885)
    • H. A. Hewton (Yale University, 1850)
    • Michel Chasles (Ecole Polytechnique, 1814)
    • Simeon Poisson (Ecole Polytechnique)
    • Joseph Lagrange
    • Leonhard Euler (University Basel, 1726)
    • Johann Bernoulli (University Basel, 1694)
    • Jacob Bernoulli (University Basel, 1684)
    • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (University Altdorf, 1666)
    • Erhard Weigel (Universitat Leipzig, 1650)
  • David Bourgin (Harvard University, 1926)
    • George David Birkhoff (University of Chicago, 1907)
      • See above
    • Edwin Kemble (Harvard University, 1917)
      • Percy Bridgman (Harvard University, 1908)
      • Wallace Sabine (Harvard University, 1888)
      • John Trowbridge (Harvard University, 1873)

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