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Joseph Leonard Walsh

American mathematician1895 to 1973

Wikidata names George David Birkhoff and Maxime Bôcher as doctoral advisors and lists 31 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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George David Birkhoff
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Maxime Bôcher

Students on Wikidata31

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Cecil T. Holmes
born 1896
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Shen Youcheng
born 1901
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Morris Marden
born 1905
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John Hamilton Curtiss
born 1909
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Joseph Leo Doob
born 1910
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Maurice Haskell Heins
born 1915
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Ivan Raymond Hershner, Jr.
born 1916
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Edwin Norman Nilson
born 1917
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Helen Kelsall Nickerson
born 1918
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Dorothy Shaffer
born 1923
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H. Margaret Larsen
born 1925
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Theodore J. Rivlin
born 1926
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Richard S. Varga
born 1928
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Donald J. Newman
born 1930
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Henry Landau
born 1931
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Edward B. Saff
born 1944
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Abraham Spitzbart
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Alan Francis Kay
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Floyd Edward Ulrich
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Helen G. Russell
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Isaac Edward Block
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Jacqueline Pascal Evans
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Jerry Leon Fields
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Lawrence Rosenfeld
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Marvin E. Ortel
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Mishael Zedek
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Orin J. Farrell
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Victor Manuel Manjarrez
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Vincent Cassell Williams
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Walter Edwin Sewell
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Zehman Irving Mosesson

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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.

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stated by WikidataGeorge David Birkhoffstated by WikidataMaxime Bôcher
2 steps up
stated by WikidataEliakim Hastings Moorestated by WikidataFelix Klein
3 steps up
stated by WikidataHubert Anson Newtonstated by WikidataJulius Plückerstated by WikidataRudolf Lipschitz
4 steps up
stated by WikidataChristian Ludwig Gerlingstated by WikidataJohann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichletstated by WikidataMartin Ohm

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 362 people: 362 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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On the Location of the Roots of the Jacobian of Two Binary Forms, and of the Derivative of a Rational Function
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career11

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

1908 to 1912
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
studied
1912 to 1913
Columbia University
studied
1913 to 1916
Harvard University
studied
1916 to 1917
University of Wisconsin–Madison
studied
1917 to 1919
United States Army
worked
1919 to 1920
Harvard University
studied
1920 to 1921
University of Paris
studied
1921 to 1942
Harvard University
worked
1942 to 1946
United States Navy
worked
1946 to 1966
Harvard University
worked
1966 to 1973
University of Maryland
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher
fields: mathematics, mathematical analysis
member of: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
notable works: Walsh matrix, Walsh function, Walsh–Hadamard code, Grace–Walsh–Szegő theorem, Walsh–Lebesgue theorem
Wikipedia: in 12 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJoseph L. Walsh
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1336492
stated by WikidataVIAF7468370
stated by WikidataGND121999017
stated by WikidataIdRef032706197
stated by WikidataISNI0000000108670365

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stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project4929

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@misc{academicancestry_Q1336492,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Joseph Leonard Walsh: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1336492},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Joseph Leonard Walsh: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1336492