My Mathematical Pedigree

according to The Mathematics Genealogy Project


  • Erhard Weigel, Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1650

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  • Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Dr. jur. Universität Altdorf 1666

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  • Jacob Bernoulli, Ph.D. ?

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  • Johann Bernoulli, Ph.D. 1694

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  • Leonhard Euler, Ph.D. Universität Basel 1726

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  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Ph.D. ?

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  • Siméon Denis Poisson, Ph.D. École Polytechnique(?) 1800. (another interesting student of Lagrange is Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier)

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  • Michel Chasles, Ph.D. École Polytechnique 1814. (another interesting student of Poisson, joint with Fourier, is Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet)

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  • Jean Gaston Darboux, Ph.D. École Normale Supérieure Paris 1866. (another interesting student of Chasles is Hubert Anson Newton)

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  • Félix Edouard Justin Émile Borel, Ph.D. École Normale Supérieure Paris, 1893. (Another interesting student of Darboux is Stanislaw Zaremba)

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  • Georges Valiron, Ph.D. Université de Paris, 1914 (Another interesting student of Borel, joint with Henri Lebesgue, is Paul Montel)

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  • Laurent Schwartz , Ph.D. Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I, 1943

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  • Jacques-Louis Lions, Ph.D. Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1, 1954. (Another interesting student of Schwartz is Alexander Grothendieck.)

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  • Roger M. Témam, Ph.D. Université de Paris, 1967.

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  • Xiaoming Wang, Ph.D. Indiana University - Bloomington, 1996.