Rod Edwards, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Victoria
Mathematical Genealogy
The Mathematics Genealogy Project keeps track of the "genealogy" of mathematicians, where the "parental" relationship is that of PhD Advisor. Some students have more than one advisor, so the line of ancestry can have branches, but one line of ancestry is as follows (with years referring to year of PhD or equivalent).
Roderick Edwards (1994)
Reinhard Illner (1976)
Jens Peter Guenter Frehse (1968)
Harro Heuser (1957)
Helmut Wielandt (1935)
Issai Schur (1901)
Georg Ferdinand Frobenius (1870)
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (1854)
Christoph Gudermann (1841)
Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut (1796)
Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner (1739)
Christian August Hausen (1713)
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (1685)
Otto Mencke (1665)
Jakob Thomasius (1643)
Friedrich Leibniz (1622)
Another line looks like this:
Roderick Edwards (1994)
Reinhard Illner (1976)
Jens Peter Guenter Frehse (1968)
Harro Heuser (1957)
Erich Kamke (1921)
Edmund Landau (1899)
Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs (1858)
Ernst Edward Kummer (1831)
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (1823)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1810)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1799)
Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1786)
Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner (1739)
Christian August Hausen (1713)
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (1685)
Otto Mencke (1665)
Jakob Thomasius (1643)
Friedrich Leibniz (1622)
Yet another line looks like this:
Roderick Edwards (1994)
Reinhard Illner (1976)
Jens Peter Guenter Frehse (1968)
Friedrich Stummel (1956)
Franz Rellich (1929)
Richard Courant (1910)
David Hilbert (1885)
C.L. Ferdinand Lindemann (1873)
C. Felix Klein (1868)
Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (1853)
Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet (1827)
Simeon Denis Poisson (1800) and Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (?)
Joseph Louis Lagrange (no degree)
Leonhard Euler (1726)
Johann Bernoulli (1690, 1694)
Jacob Bernoulli (1684)
Nicolas Malebranche (1672)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1666)
Jakob Thomasius (1643)
Friedrich Leibniz (1622)
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Last updated: 10 June 2016