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My PhD Genealogy
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#22I 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…
Can you provide a reference for the claim that the concept of a freely postulated axiom system was implicit in Eudoxus? I'm very curious!
I assume the 19th century rediscovery you refer to was Boole, Hamilton et al and their work in logic and the beginnings of abstract algebra.
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#23Leibniz - Bernoulli - Bernoulli - Euler - LaGrange was a pretty good run!
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#24I 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…
I feel that the possibility of tracing academic lineage back to antiquity in the West is very dim, for the same reason that tracing descent from antiquity[0] in Europe has proven impossible - too few records survived. Even in the Catholic Church, the longest unbroken chain (i.e., for which records survive) of apostolic succession (i.e., which bishop consecrated each bishop) goes only back to the 1400s with Guillaume d'Estouteville, even though France in the 1400s was long after the Dark Ages and many records survive from the High Middle Ages onward.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_antiquity [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_d%27Estouteville
Re: My PhD Genealogy
#25I 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…
> "02016" Thank you for preparing for the Y10K problem.
It's a Long Now thing.
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#26This is very cool, but I think it is a stretch to say that Rheticus was a student of Copernicus.
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#27If you like this, you might be interested in AstroGen, the Astronomy Genealogy Project that I helped design: https://astrogen.aas.org
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#28Jean-Baptiste Fourier
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I was never aware of this connection. Is there some reasons or story behind how all of these geniuses clustered together?
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#29https://academictree.org/flytree/ does something similar for genetics or the base site for dozens of other disciplines.
I will actually give this one a tremendous amount of credit for picking up both my real advisor, and my "shadow" advisor (a very, very close member who was on my committee, but at a different institution).
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#30Jean-Baptiste Fourier | Joseph Lagrange | Leonhard Euler 1726 | Johann Bernoulli 1694 | Gottfried Leibniz 1666 I was never aware of this connection. Is there some reasons or story behind how all of these geniuses clustered together?
It's hard to succeed in academia if you aren't in a lineage.
See Castelvecchi, D. "Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’". Nature 537, 20–21 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20491