Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Paolo Piazza

Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 on "K-Theory and Index Theory on Manifolds with Boundary" supervised by Richard Burt Melrose

Wikidata names Richard Melrose as doctoral advisor, lists 3 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sara Azzali

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.

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

Education and career1

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