Mathematical Ancestors

(Compiled by Dr. Nigel Pitt, from Harold Diamond's home page)

For more information, see the Mathematics Geneology Project.

• J. J. v. Littrow
• Nikolai Dmetrievich Braschman, Moscow
• Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, St. Petersberg
• Georgy Fedoseevich Voronoi, Warsaw
• Waclaw Sierpinski, Warsaw
• Stefan Mazurkiewicz A. Rajchman, Warsaw
• Antoni Zygmund, University of Chicago
• Paul J. Cohen, Stanford University
• Harold G. Diamond, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin

Some Mathematical Siblings

• Dan Abramson
• Jeffrey Barton, Birmingham-Southern College
• Antonie Boerkoel, Institute of Technology
• Edward B. Burger, President, Southwestern University
• Shey-Jey Chern
• Greg Dresden, Washington & Lee University
• Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College
• John Garza, Kansas State University
• Jeff Holt, University of Virginia
• Stephanie Kolitsch, University of Tennessee at Martin
• Miguel Lerma, Northwestern University
• Michael Mossinghoff, Davidson College
• Robbin O'Leary, Seattle Pacific University
• Clay Petsche, City University of New York Graduate Center
• Chris Pinner, Kansas State University
• Charles Samuels, Oklahoma City Univesity
• Chris Sinclair, University of Oregon
• Thomas Struppeck
• Michael Vose, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Mathematical Descendants

• Michael Coons, (joint supervision with Peter Borwein), University of Newcastle, Australia
• Himadri Ganguli, (joint supervision with Peter Borwein), Columbia College, Vancouver

For readers who are not academics, I should explain that I am not related to any of these individuals, in the usual sense of blood relations. Rather, everyone who receives a doctorate normally has an advisor for his or her research. The list of "mathematical ancestors" simply traces this chain of research advisors beginning with my advisor, J. Vaaler. So H. Diamond was his advisor, and P. Cohen his advisor, etc. The second list shows several of the Ph.D. students of my advisor, so they are my "mathematical siblings."