| Advisor | Ph.D. Institution, Year | |
| Doron Levy | Tel-Aviv University, 1997 | |
| Eitan Tadmor | Tel-Aviv University, 1979 | ![]() |
| Saul Abarbanel | MIT, 1959 | ![]() |
| Leon Trilling | CalTech, 1948 | ![]() |
| Paco Lagerstrom 1914-1989 |
Princeton, 1942 | ![]() |
| Salomon Bochner 1899-1982 |
Gottingen, 1921 | |
| Erhard Schmidt 1876-1959 |
Konigsberg, 1905 | |
| David Hilbert 1862-1943 |
Konigsberg, 1885 | |
| Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann 1852-1939 |
Erlangen-Numberg, 1873 | |
| C. Felix Klein 1849-1925 |
Bonn, 1868 |
Klein had two advisors: Julius Plucker and Rudolf Lipschitz. We start with Lipschitz.
| Rudolf Lipschitz 1832-1903 |
Berlin, 1853 | |
Lipschitz had two advisors: Dirichlet and Martin Ohm. We continue with the Dirichlet line |
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| Gustav Dirichlet 1805-1859 |
Bohn, 1827 | |
| Dirichlet had two advisors: Simeon Possion and Jean-Baptiste Fourier. Both students of Joseph Lagrange | ||
| Simeon Poisson 1781-1840 |
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| Jean-Baptiste Fourier 1768-1830 |
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| Joseph Lagrange (was the advisor of both Poisson and Fourier) 1736-1813 |
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| Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 |
Basel 1726 | |
| Johann Bernoulli 1667-1748 |
1694 | |
| Jacob Bernoulli 1654-1705 |
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| Gottfried Leibniz 1646-1716 |
Altdorf, 1666 | |
| Erhard Weigel 1625-1699 |
Leipzig, 1650 | ![]() |
And now to the Plucker line: |
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| Julius Plucker 1801-1868 |
Marburg, 1823 | |
| Christian Gerling 1788-1846 |
Gottingen, 1812 | ![]() |
| Carl Gauss 1777-1855 |
Helmstedt, 1799 | |
| Johann Pfaff 1765-1825 |
Gottingen, 1786 | |
| Abraham Kaestner 1719-1800 |
Leipzig, 1739 | |
| Christian Hausen 1693-1743 |
Halle-Wittenberg, 1713 | |
| Johann Wichmannshausen | Leipzig, 1685 | |
| Otto Mencke 1644-1707 |
Leipzig, 1665 |