From the
Mathematics Genealogy Project

“… on the Shoulders of Giants” – Isaac Newton

Notes:

  • A person with multiple Ph. D. advisors is represented as a box with multiple boxes immediately above it.
  • A person with multiple students is represented as a box with multiple boxes immediately below it.
  • The colored squares have a biography link or a home-page link for further details.
  • I was able to untangle this tree except once in the 5th row, where the same Abraham Kaestner appears twice.

 

  Erhard Weigel
Dr. phil. Universität Leipzig 1634
 
Otto Mencken
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1668
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Biography
Dr. jur. Universität Altdorf 1666
 
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1685
Jacob Bernoulli
Biography
 
Christian August Hausen
(1713) Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg
Johann Bernoulli
Biography
 
Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner
Biography
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1739
Leonhard Euler
Biography
Ph.D. Universität Basel 1726
    Abraham Kaestner (see left)
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Dr. phil. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1765
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
Biography
Dr. phil. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1786
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Biography
  Friedrich Anton Justus Thibaut
Dr. phil. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1796
Johann Tobias Meyer d.J.
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1773
Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes
Dr. phil. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1800
Carl Friedrich Gauß
Biography
Ph.D. Universität Helmstedt 1799
Simeon Denis Poisson
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Fourier
Biography
Karl Christian von Langsdorf Dr. phil. Universität Erfurt 1781 Enno Heeren Dirksen
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1820
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1810
Christoph Gudermann
Biography
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1841
Christian Ludwig Gerling Dr. phil. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1812   Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet
Biography
Honorary Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1827
Martin Ohm
Dr. phil. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1811
Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Ph.D. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1825
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk Ph.D. Universität Berlin 1823
Ernst Edward Kummer
Ph.D. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1831
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß
Honorary Universität Königsberg 1854
Julius Plücker Philipps-Universität Marburg 1823 Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz
Biography
Dr. phil. Universität Berlin 1853
Friedrich Julius Richelot
Ph.D. Universität Königsberg 1831
Otto Hesse
Biography
Dr. phil. Universität Königsberg 1840
Hermann Amandus Schwarz
Biography
Ph.D. Universität Berlin 1864
C. Felix (Christian) Klein
Biography
Ph.D. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1868
Carl Gottfried Neumann
Biography
Dr. phil. Universität Königsberg 1856
Leopold (Lipót) Fejér
Biography
Ph.D. Eötvös Loránd University 1902
William Edward Story
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1875
 
Michael (Mihály) Fekete
Ph.D. Eötvös Loránd University
Solomon Lefschetz
Biography
Ph.D. Clark University 1911
Henry Lewis Rietz
Ph.D. Cornell University 1902
Menahem Max Schiffer
Ph.D. Hebrew University 1939
John Wilder Tukey
Biography
Ph.D. Princeton University 1939
Samuel Stanley Wilks
Biography
Ph.D. University of Iowa 1931
Dennis Arnold Hejhal
Home Page
Ph.D. Stanford University 1972
Fredrick Mosteller
Ph.D. Princeton University 1946
Persi W. Diaconis
Home Page
Ph.D. Harvard University 1974
Arif Zaman
Home page
Ph.D. Stanford University 1981