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William Lyman Porter

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1969born 1934

Wikidata names Aaron Fleisher and Kevin A. Lynch as doctoral advisors and lists 12 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and VIAF.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata12

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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 12 people: 12 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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