Mathematical Lineage


 

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

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
 
Jean-Baptiste Fourier
1768-1830
 
Joseph Lagrange (was the advisor of both Poisson and Fourier)
1736-1813
Leonhard Euler
1707-1783
Basel 1726
Johann Bernoulli
1667-1748
1694
Jacob Bernoulli
1654-1705
 
Gottfried Leibniz
1646-1716
Altdorf, 1666
Erhard Weigel
1625-1699
Leipzig, 1650

 


And now to the Plucker line:

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