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(Message started by: william wu on Sep 6^th, 2003, 5:33am)

Title: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Post by william wu on Sep 6^th, 2003, 5:33am

http://genealogy.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/html/search.phtml is a cool site. It's a searchable database of teacher-student relationships in mathematics dating all the way back to who knows. It's interesting to see who were the students and teachers of various famous people, and also perhaps to look up anyone you may know (e.g. teachers).

Here are some root names with insanely impressive descendant trees that you might like to look up: jacob bernoulli (http://genealogy.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/html/id.phtml?id=54440), alonzo church (http://genealogy.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/html/id.phtml?id=8011)

Some cool short relationships I found: (karp[to]motwani[to]karger), (chebyshev[to]markov), (elias[to]gallager[to]berlekamp)

Feel free to post any other interesting relationships you discover.

Title: Re: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Post by BNC on Sep 7^th, 2003, 3:53am

Bernoulli -> Bernoulli -> Euler -> Lagrange -> Fourier -> Dirichlet -> Kronecker :o

Title: Re: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Oct 11^th, 2003, 9:15am

Quote:

Feel free to post any other interesting relationships you discover.

Icarus being too modest to post himself....

Jacob Bernoulli -> Johann Bernoulli -> Leonhard Euler -> Joseph Lagrange -> Simeon Poisson -> Michel Chasles -> H. A. Newton -> E. H. Moore -> Oswald Veblen -> Tracy Thomas -> Carl Allendoerfer -> Shoshichi Kobayashi -> Francis Flaherty -> Phillip Parker -> Icarus

Title: Re: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Post by Icarus on Oct 11^th, 2003, 10:01pm

That was cool! When I first saw this thread I didn't have time to investigate. Later I forgot about it. I would of never guessed my "ancestoral line" had such greats as the Bernoullis, Euler, Lagrange and Poisson (though I suppose any such "geneology" must eventually lead back to the great names). Alas, what a dead end has come of their teachings!

I am also a little leary of investigating geneologies since I discovered a few years ago that my own supposedly includes J.C. Himself (well - thats what my ancestors 700-800 years ago claimed :P).

[By the way, the mod on your post was to correct the spelling on my advisor Dr. Parker's name.]

Title: Re: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Post by william wu on Oct 12^th, 2003, 3:30am

Haha! Wow. Icarus has an Euler number of 12! No wonder he's so frickin smart ... :o

Although there are 6138 Euler "descendants" listed, the total number of records is 70919. That warrants bragging rights in my book :)

Title: Re: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Post by william wu on Feb 19^th, 2004, 10:42pm

Johannes Frischauf -> Gustav Ritter von Escherich -> Hans Hahn -> Karl Menger -> Witold Hurewicz -> Allen Shields -> Theodore John Kaczynski

Only ancestral member I recognized was Menger, from Menger Sponges: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MengerSponge.html

Title: Re: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Post by John_Gaughan on Feb 20^th, 2004, 5:45am

on 02/19/04 at 22:42:06, william wu wrote:

Johannes Frischauf -> Gustav Ritter von Escherich -> Hans Hahn -> Karl Menger -> Witold Hurewicz -> Allen Shields -> Theodore John Kaczynski

So there is a link between brilliance and insanity... ;D

Title: Re: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on May 23^rd, 2004, 5:32pm

The link given by William no longer works.

But this (http://www.genealogy.ams.org/) does.