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Walter Saxer

Swiss mathematician1896 to 1974

Wikidata names George Pólya and Michel Plancherel as doctoral advisors and lists 56 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata56

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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 498 people: 498 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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