[HN Gopher] My PhD Genealogy ___________________________________________________________________ My PhD Genealogy Author : hkc Score : 61 points Date : 2022-10-19 20:08 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (robots.stanford.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (robots.stanford.edu) | seydor wrote: | 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/ | kragen wrote: | I 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 was an unbroken line | of personal mentorship the way there is in the Buddhist lineages, | or if at some point the oral line was severed. Perhaps during the | Roman rampages through Greece, the line of transmission of | philosophy only survived in Alexandria, or less plausibly, | somewhere in India, only to resurface in Arabia while Europe was | sunken into its Dark Ages. Or perhaps it had to be recovered from | the few manuscripts the Christians hadn't yet recycled into | hymnals, like the Archimedes Palimpsest. | | We know that somewhere between Eudoxus and Galileo the idea of | freely postulated axiom systems was lost, and it was not really | fully rediscovered until the 19th century. | bgriirtuh wrote: | 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. | languageserver wrote: | 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? | ghufran_syed wrote: | usually it means that the "parent" was a phd supervisor for | the "child" researcher who studied for a PhD under that | supervisor | telotortium wrote: | 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 | tim_hutton wrote: | > "02016" | | Thank you for preparing for the Y10K problem. | thedailymail wrote: | Leibniz - Bernoulli - Bernoulli - Euler - LaGrange was a pretty | good run! | lpolovets wrote: | I 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 | dekhn wrote: | He 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... | melling wrote: | Erdos 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_Erdos_number | uptownfunk wrote: | This makes me want to get a PhD to join the family. | breck wrote: | Here are some simple visualizations of this data: | https://gist.github.com/breck7/b88155a58cbf83d32283b9ea50bf8... | josters wrote: | I 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. | motoboi wrote: | 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. | johndbeatty wrote: | 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. | .. | basementcat wrote: | Much of this information is available from the Mathematics | Geneology Project. | https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=100193 | ray__ wrote: | There is academictree.org, which provides "academic genealogy" | for quite a few disciplines-is this the type of tool you're | looking for? | biomcgary wrote: | Thank you! I had never looked up my academic genealogy | before, which includes Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, and | Michael Polanyi. | searine wrote: | https://academictree.org/flytree/ does something similar for | genetics or the base site for dozens of other disciplines. | laurentoget wrote: | we are cousins! | mandevil wrote: | You can really see the results of the ebbs and flows of | generations in this genealogy. The massive post-war three part | economic, technological, and population booms just jumps out of | this data. Ph.D's granted in this genalogy, per decade. 1870's: 1 | 1880's: 2 1890's: 0 1900's: 3 1910's: 0 (they were fighting a | war, no time for dissertations) 1920's: 2 1930's: 2 1940's: 1 | (They were fighting a war, no time for dissertations) 1950's: 0 | (Baby bust from the great depression) 1960's: 4 (The intra-war | and postwar kids, with funding and jobs) 1970's: 2 1980's: 0 (Too | soon to be have their own students for a 1995 Ph.D) | etrautmann wrote: | The field of Neuroscience tends to track lineages with | Neurotree.org ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-19 23:00 UTC)