Academic ancestry
According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, my academic ancestry can be traced back through fifteen generations:
| Alan J. Cain |
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| Nikola Ruškuc | ↓ |
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| John M. Howie | | Edmund F. Robertson |
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| Graham Higman | | Stewart E. Stonhewer |
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| John H.C. Whitehead | | ? |
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| Oswald Veblen |
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| Eliakim H. Moore |
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| Hubert A. Newton |
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| Michel Chasles |
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| Simeon Poisson |
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| Joseph Lagrange | | Pierre-Simon Laplace |
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| Leonhard Euler | | Jean Le Rond d'Alembert |
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| Johann Bernoulli | | ? |
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| Jacob Bernoulli |
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| Gottfried Leibniz |
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| Erhard Weigel |
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| ? |