Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Etta Zuber Falconer

American mathematician & academic1933 to 2002

Wikidata names Trevor Evans as doctoral advisor and names Evelyn Boyd Granville as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and Wikipedia.

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Etta Zuber Falconer, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Theses

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

The line above and below4 steps

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.

Education and career10

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