Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Alvin M. Best, III

Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University 1984

Wikidata names W. Hans Carter, Jr. as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

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