My mathematical genealogy

Below is my mathematical ancestry, defined by doctoral thesis supervisor, extracted from the website of the Mathematical genealogy project. Three of my ancestors had two supervisors, and twice two or three had the same supervisor, so this family tree is neither a line nor a tree. My most famous mathematical ancestor is Gauss, but it's hardly a distinguishing feature since 32% of all mathematicians in the database are his descendents.

Jonathan Kirby
D.Phil. University of Oxford 2006
Dissertation: The Theory of Exponential Differential Equations
Boris Iosifovich Zil'ber
Ph.D. Novosibirsk State University 1975
Dissertation: Groups and Rings with Categorical Theories
Michael Abramovich Taitslin
Ph.D. Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk 1962
Anatolij Ivanovich Mal'tsev
Ph.D. Moscow State University
Andrei Nikolayevich Kolmogorov
Ph.D. Moscow State University 1925
Nikolai Nikolayevich Luzin
Ph.D. Moscow State University 1915
Dissertation: The Integral and Trigonometric Series
Dimitri Fedorowitsch Egorov
Ph.D. Moscow State University 1901
Nicolai Bugaev
Ph.D. Moscow State University 1866
Dissertation: Number Identities Connected with Properties of the Symbol E
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß
Honorary Universität Königsberg 1854
Ernst Edward Kummer
Ph.D. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1831
Dissertation: De cosinuum et sinuum potestatibus secundum cosinus et sinus arcuum multiplicium evolvendis
Christoph Gudermann
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1841
Dissertation: Über die Entwicklung der Modularfunctionen
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk
Ph.D. Universität Berlin 1823
Dissertation: De evolvenda functione .... disquisitiones nonnullae analyticae
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1810
Heinrich Brandes
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1800
Carl Friedrich Gauß
Ph.D. Universität Helmstedt 1799
Dissertation: Demonstratio nova theorematis omnem functionem algebraicam rationalem integram unius variabilis in factores reales primi vel secundi gradus resolvi posse
G. Lichtenberg
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1765
(Brandes was also supervised by Kaestner)
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
Dr. phil. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1786
Dissertation: Commentatio de ortibus et occasibus siderum apud auctores classicos commemoratis
Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1739
Dissertation: Theoria radicum in aequationibus
Christian August Hausen
Dr. phil. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1713
Dissertation: De corpore scissuris figurisque non cruetando ductu
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1685
Dissertation: Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae
Otto Mencken
Ph.D.
Supervisor: Unknown


Last updated 27 October 2006. Please email me if you have any comments.