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The following information is an excerpt from the material that can be found at the homepage of The Mathematics Genealogy Project. The intent of this project is to compile information about ALL the mathematicians of the world. By searching, e.g., for Last Name "Borndörfer" at http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/search.shtml one can find my entry. By clicking on my name, my Ph.D. advisor (Martin Grötschel) is displayed. By clicking on him, one can find his advisor and so on. The list of doctoral father, doctoral grandfather, doctoral great grandfather, etc. below has been collected from the wonderful data repository of the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Thanks to Martin Grötschel who has compiled and formatted the information on this page!


Martin Grötschel
Ph.D. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1977
Dissertation: Polyedrische Charakterisierungen kombinatorischer Optimierungsprobleme
Advisor: Bernhard Korte

Bernhard Korte
Ph.D. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1967
Dissertation: Beiträge zur Theorie der Hardy'schen Funktionenklassen
Advisor: Ernst Pesch

Ernst Peschl
Ph.D. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1931
Dissertation: Ueber die Krümmung von Niveaukurven bei der konformen Abbildung einfachzusammenhängender Gebiete auf das Innere eines Kreises; eine Verallgemeinerung eines Satzes von E. Study
Advisor: Constantin Carathéodory

Constantin Carathéodory
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1904
Dissertation: Über die diskontinuierlichen Lösungen in der Variationsrechnung
Advisor: Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski
Dr. phil. Universität Königsberg 1885
Dissertation: Untersuchungen über quadratische Formen Bestimmung der Anzahl verschiedener Formen, welche ein gegebenes Genus enthält
Advisor: C. L. Ferdinand Lindemann

C. L. Ferdinand (Carl Louis) Lindemann
Ph.D. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1873
Dissertation: Über unendlich kleine Bewegungen und über Kraftsysteme bei allgemeiner projektivischer Maßbestimmung
Advisor: C. Felix Klein

C. Felix (Christian) Klein
Ph.D. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1868
Dissertation: Über die Transformation der allgemeinen Gleichung des zweiten Grades zwischen Linien-Koordinaten auf eine kanonische Form
Advisor 1: Julius Plücker
Advisor 2: Rudolf Lipschitz (see below for this branch)

Julius Plücker
Ph.D. Philipps - Universität Marburg 1823
Dissertation: Generalem analyeseos applicationem ad ea quae geometriae altioris et mechanicae basis et fundamenta sunt e serie Tayloria deducit
Advisor: Christian Gerling

Christian Ludwig Gerling
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1812
Dissertation: Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die
Advisor: Carl Friedrich Gauß

Carl Friedrich Gauß
Ph.D. University of Helmstedt 1799
Dissertation: Demonstratio nova theorematis omnem functionem algebraicam rationalem integram unius variabilis in factores reales primi vel secundi gradus resolvi posse
Advisor: Johann Pfaff

Johann Friedrich Pfaff
Ph.D. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1786
Dissertation: Commentatio de ortibus et occasibus siderum apud auctores classicos commemoratis
Advisor: Abraham Kaestner

Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1739
Dissertation: Theoria radicum in aequationibus
Advisor: Christian Hansen

Christian August Hansen
Ph.D. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1713
Dissertation: De corpore scissuris figurisque non cruetando ductu
Advisor: Johann Wichmannshausen

Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1685
Dissertation: Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae
Advisor: Otto Mencken

Otto Mencken
Ph.D. unknown
Dissertation: unknown
Advisor: Unknown

Branch of the genealogy line above:

C. Felix (Christian) Klein
lists, in addition to Julius Plücker, another advisor:
Advisor 2: Rudolf Lipschitz

Following the Lipschitz branch yields these additional academic forefathers:

Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz
Dr. phil. Universität Berlin 1853
Dissertation: Determinatio status magnetici viribus inducentibus commoti in ellipsoide
Advisor 1: Gustav Dirichlet
Advisor 2: Martin Ohm

Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1827
Advisor 1: Simeon Poisson
Advisor 2: Jean-Baptiste Fourier
(This is a somewhat unclear entry in the data base.)
Simeon Denis Poisson
Advisor: Joseph Lagrange

Joseph Louis Lagrange
Advisor: Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler
Ph.D. Universität Basel 1726
Advisor: Johann Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli
1694
Advisor: Jacob Bernoulli

Jacob Bernoulli
Advisor: Unknown

Branch of the genealogy tree:


Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz
lists, in addition to Gustav Dirichlet, another advisor:
Advisor 2: Martin Ohm

Following the Ohm branch yields these additional academic forefathers:

Martin Ohm
Dr. phil. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1811
Dissertation: De elevatione serierum infinitarum secundi ordinis ad potestatem exponentis indeterminati
Advisor: Karl von Langsdorf

Karl Christian von Langsdorf
Advisor: Unknown

Branch of the genealogy tree:

Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet
lists, in addition to Simeon Poisson, another advisor:
Advisor 2: Jean-Baptiste Fourier
Following the Fourier branch yields Joseph Louis Lagrange as Fourier's advisor. Lagrange has already appeared above as the advisor of Poisson. This creates a cycle in the genealogy "tree".

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