Academia is not that big, is quite incestuous, and such trees or descent are not rare. I think there was a website that listed people's academic family
here is one for neuroscience: https://neurotree.org/neurotree/
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#12I started browsing https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ after reading this post. Some of the genealogies are wildly impressive. For example:
https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=38586
Bernoulli -> Euler -> Lagrange -> Poisson and Fourier
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#13He just needs to make a movie with Kevin Bacon and publish with Erdos to round things out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
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#14I really like the simplicity of this. I suppose this was done by hand. Having such an overview while doing the research would be really beneficial for discovering novel ideas and connections. I haven't come across such a tool as of yet.
There is academictree.org, which provides "academic genealogy" for quite a few disciplines–is this the type of tool you're looking for?
Thank you! I had never looked up my academic genealogy before, which includes Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, and Michael Polanyi.
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#15I spent some time in 02016 digging through different sorts of academic lineages. It turns out, for example, that you can also trace Leibniz back to Copernicus: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/academic-lineage.html Thrun's page seems to have an error about Leibniz: "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1966, 1967, 1976" It would be nice to be able to trace figures like al-Tusi back to Plato and Imhotep, to know if there really…
no where on the site does it tell us that a lineage actually is. Does it mean that the mathematicians knew eachoter? that they adviced? cited?
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#16He just needs to make a movie with Kevin Bacon and publish with Erdos to round things out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
Erdős has been reading Proofs from the Book for a couple decades, and is unable to publish.
Perhaps some of these people are available:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_by_Erdős_number
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#17I really like the simplicity of this. I suppose this was done by hand. Having such an overview while doing the research would be really beneficial for discovering novel ideas and connections. I haven't come across such a tool as of yet.
I would love to have an ideas and people genealogy where you can select a thinker like Rousseau and have a graph of the main ideas in his works and their predecessors. Think about his amour de soi. Did it existed previously anywhere else? Who talked about something similar earlier? I'd die for something like that.
I wanted something like this as well, and I have a prototype of something much simpler (using node2vec to generate embeddings using data from Wikidata and DBpedia (and Twitter)). It doesn't really do what you want, but you might find it interesting.
Rousseau: https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c Amour de soi: https://pov.is/e/82e9f674-ebbf-4c36-b225-ec1653ce3367
You can go backwards and forwards in time using by-year view (though missing data in Wikidata makes this a bit difficult): https://pov.is/e/93f9822c-1ed8-4bc9-aec9-064e7bb6807c?i=Q5&o...
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#18Here are some simple visualizations of this data: https://gist.github.com/breck7/b88155a58cbf83d32283b9ea50bf8...
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#19I spent some time in 02016 digging through different sorts of academic lineages. It turns out, for example, that you can also trace Leibniz back to Copernicus: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/academic-lineage.html Thrun's page seems to have an error about Leibniz: "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1966, 1967, 1976" It would be nice to be able to trace figures like al-Tusi back to Plato and Imhotep, to know if there really…
no where on the site does it tell us that a lineage actually is. Does it mean that the mathematicians knew eachoter? that they adviced? cited?
usually it means that the “parent” was a phd supervisor for the “child” researcher who studied for a PhD under that supervisor
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#20I spent some time in 02016 digging through different sorts of academic lineages. It turns out, for example, that you can also trace Leibniz back to Copernicus: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/academic-lineage.html Thrun's page seems to have an error about Leibniz: "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1966, 1967, 1976" It would be nice to be able to trace figures like al-Tusi back to Plato and Imhotep, to know if there really…
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Thank you for preparing for the Y10K problem.