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W. Edward Olmstead

Ph.D. Northwestern University 1963

Wikidata names Ivar Stakgold and Severin Raynor as doctoral advisors and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata16

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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 18 people: 18 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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