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Gordon Foster

Irish mathematician1921 to 2010

Wikidata names David George Kendall as doctoral advisor and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata13

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 54 people: 54 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

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