Top 50 Advisors

NameStudents
Roger Meyer Temam101
Ronold Wyeth Percival King100
Leonard Salomon Ornstein95
Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolsky87
Ludwig Prandtl86
Shlomo Noach (Stephen Ram) Sawilowsky83
Selim Grigorievich Krein81
David Garvin Moursund81
Andrei Nikolayevich Kolmogorov79
Alexander Vasil'evich Mikhalëv78
Egon Krause76
Charles Ehresmann76
David Hilbert75
Beno Eckmann73
Neil Andrew Davidson73
Bruce Ramon Vogeli73
Wilhelm Magnus72
Edward Joseph McCluskey, Jr.71
Robert Wayne Newcomb69
Donald Richard Marcotte68
Wayne Arthur Fuller67
Hubert Stanley Wall66
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Samoilenko66
Jean-Claude Nédélec66
David Harold Blackwell65
Andrew Bernard Whinston64
Eduard L. Stiefel64
George Bachman62
Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirillov61
Gunter Schwarze61
Johan F. A. K. van Benthem60
Ivo Wouter Molenaar60
Paul Heinz Müller59
Azriel Rosenfeld58
C. Felix (Christian) Klein58
Reinhold Baer58
Walter Saxer57
Anatoli V. Skorokhod57
Peter Charles Bonest Phillips57
John Wilder Tukey56
Hans Wolfgang Liepmann55
Irving Kaplansky55
Joseph Bishop Keller55
Peter David Lax55
Jeffrey David Ullman55
Gilbert Ames Bliss54
S. Shankar (Sosale Shankara) Sastry54
Fred C. Piper53
Yu-Chi Ho53
Ernst Eduard Kummer53

Most Descendants

NameDescendantsYear of Degree
Immanuel Tremellius56714
Valentine Naibod56714
Rudolph (Snel van Royen) Snellius567131572
Erhard Weigel536071650
Ludolph van Ceulen53606
Thomas Erpenius53604
Willebrord (Snel van Royen) Snellius536041607
Marin Mersenne536031611
Jacobus Golius536031612, 1621
Frans van Schooten, Jr.536011635
Jan Jansz Stampioen, Jr.53598
Christiaan Huygens535971647, 1655
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz535961666
Jacob Bernoulli520571684
Johann Bernoulli520541694
Leonhard Euler520451726
Joseph Louis Lagrange49792 
Simeon Denis Poisson49789 
Otto Mencke455421665, 1666
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen455401685
Christian August Hausen455391713
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner455361739
Johann Friedrich Pfaff440851786
Carl Friedrich Gauß433471799
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier33058 
Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet330561827
Karl Christian von Langsdorf319381781
Martin Ohm319361811
Christian Ludwig Gerling319051812
Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz319041853
Julius Plücker319041823
C. Felix (Christian) Klein319031868
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg227991765
C. L. Ferdinand (Carl Louis) Lindemann215351873
Michel Chasles202141814
Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes164081800
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel164081810
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk164071823
Ernst Eduard Kummer164051831
David Hilbert160951885

Frequency Counts

The table below indicates the values of number of students for mathematicians in our database along with the number of mathematicians having that many students.

Number of StudentsFrequency
097643
111741
24614
32623
41836
51319
6982
7769
8625
9556
10395
11367
12322
13284
14255
16192
15159
18143
17138
19109
20101
2189
2275
2468
2566
2358
2743
2642
2837
3031
2929
3326
3123
3423
3222
4020
3519
3815
4115
3613
3911
4611
429
439
509
477
517
527
376
486
496
535
555
444
453
573
583
663
733
542
602
612
642
762
812
561
591
621
651
671
681
691
711
721
751
781
791
831
861
871
951
1001
1011