My Advising Genealogy

(Sources: The Mathematics Genealogy Project and the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive)

• Brian Howard (Stanford University, 1992), Fixed Points and Extensionality in Typed Functional Programming Languages
• John Mitchell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984), Lambda Calculus Models of Typed Programming Languages
• Albert Meyer (Harvard University, 1972), On Complex Recursive Functions
• Patrick Fischer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962), Theory of Provable Recursive Functions
• Hartley Rogers, Jr. (Princeton University, 1952), Some Results on Definability and Decidability in Elementary Theories
• Alonzo Church (Princeton University, 1927), Alternatives to Zermelo's Assumption
• Oswald Veblen (The University of Chicago, 1903), A System of Axioms for Geometry
• Eliakim Moore (Yale University, 1885), Extensions of Certain Theorems of Clifford and Cayley in the Geometry of n Dimensions
• Hubert Anson Newton (Yale University, 1850). The MGP extends the line further back from Newton to Michel Chasles, although Newton only received a B.S. at Yale before starting to teach there. It is possible that Chasles was influential as a mentor to Newton, but I have not seen the evidence of this. Chasles' advisor was Siméon-Denis Poisson, and his advisor was Joseph-Louis Lagrange, both at the École Polytechnique in Paris. Lagrange studied at the College of Turin, but started out in a law career. When he switched to mathematics, he began a correspondance with Leonhard Euler, so the MGP identifies Euler as Lagrange's advisor (but again, this was not a formal "student-advisor" relation). From Euler, the MGP takes the line back two more steps, to Johann Bernoulli and then to his older brother, Jacob Bernoulli, all at the Universität Basel.

Last updated Friday, August 27, 2004