Academical Genealogy
My academic ancestors (the name, university, and graduating year):
- Otto Mencke, Universität Leipzig, 1665, 1666
- Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen, Universität Leipzig, 1685
- Christian August Hausen, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1713
- Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner, Universität Leipzig, 1739
- Johann
Friedrich Pfaff, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,
1786
- Carl
Friedrich Gauß, Universität Helmstedt, 1799
- Christian Ludwig Gerling, Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, 1812
- Julius
Plücker, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1823
- Felix
Klein, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1868
- Ferdinand
Lindemann, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1873
- David
Hilbert, Universität Königsberg, 1885
- Erich
Hecke, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1910
- Wilhelm Maak, Universität Hamburg, 1936
- Konrad Jacobs, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, 1954
- Thomas
Beth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
1978
- Pawel
Wocjan, Universität Fridericiana zu Karlsruhe, 2003.
I have written a program MathExplorer in Java that automatically
crawls through the database of the Mathematics Genealogy
Project, extracts students and advisors, and creates an ancestor
tree. I have used yFiles -
Java Graph Layout and Visualization Library for building and
displaying the ancestor tree.
My ancestor tree produced by MathExplorer is here.
Find your own academical
ancestors.
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