Every mathematician begins as an apprentice (graduate student) with a teacher (advisor). An apprentice may later become a teacher with apprentices of their own, continuing a chain known as a mathematical genealogy. Below is my lineage from The Mathematics Genealogy Project; institutions and degree years appear where available.
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- Erhard WeigelUniversität Leipzig · 1650
- Gottfried LeibnizUniversität Altdorf · 1666
- Jacob Bernoulli
- Johann Bernoulli1694
- Leonhard EulerUniversität Basel · 1726
- Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Simeon Denis Poisson
- Michel ChaslesÉcole Polytechnique · 1814
- Hubert Anson NewtonB.S., Yale University · 1850
- Eliakim Hastings MooreYale University · 1885&Oswald VeblenUniversity of Chicago · 1903
- Robert Lee MooreUniversity of Chicago · 1905
- John Robert KlineUniversity of Pennsylvania · 1916
- Donald Alexander FlandersUniversity of Pennsylvania · 1927
- Jacob WolfowitzNew York University · 1942
- Jack Carl KieferColumbia University · 1952
- Lawrence D. BrownCornell University · 1964
- T. Tony CaiCornell University · 1996