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Show HN: Trace the history of academia
(gist.github.com)
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6 points
by vedantk
5605 days ago
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Wikipedia often lists the doctoral advisors of famous scientists. I wanted to be able to pick a scientist and recursively find their mentors. This information has no practical value, but I thought it was interesting. John McCarthy's mentor history is especially awesome; John McCarthy (computer scientist)
>> Solomon Lefschetz
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>> >> >> >> >> >> Carl Friedrich Gauss
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>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Jakob Thomasius
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>> >> >> >> >> >> Siméon Denis Poisson
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Joseph Louis Lagrange
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Leonhard Euler
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Johann Bernoulli
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Pierre-Simon Laplace
>> >> >> >> >> >> Joseph Fourier |
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