Top 50 Advisors

NameStudents
Roger Meyer Temam101
Ronold Wyeth Percival King100
Leonard Salomon Ornstein95
Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolsky87
Ludwig Prandtl86
David Garvin Moursund82
Shlomo Noach Stephen R. Sawilowsky82
Selim Grigorievich Krein81
Alexander Vasil'evich Mikhalëv79
Andrei Nikolayevich Kolmogorov79
Charles Ehresmann76
Egon Krause76
David Hilbert75
Neil Andrew Davidson73
Beno Eckmann72
Wilhelm Magnus72
Bruce Ramon Vogeli72
Edward Joseph McCluskey, Jr.71
Robert Wayne Newcomb69
Donald Richard Marcotte69
Jean-Claude Nédélec66
Wayne Arthur Fuller66
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Samoilenko66
Hubert Stanley Wall66
David Harold Blackwell65
Eduard L. Stiefel64
George Bachman62
Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirillov61
Gunter Schwarze61
Ivo Wouter Molenaar60
Johan F. A. K. van Benthem60
Paul Heinz Müller59
Reinhold Baer58
Walter Saxer58
C. Felix (Christian) Klein58
Peter Charles Bonest Phillips57
Azriel Rosenfeld57
Anatoli V. Skorokhod57
John Wilder Tukey56
Jeffrey David Ullman55
Irving Kaplansky55
Peter David Lax55
Joseph Bishop Keller55
Gilbert Ames Bliss54
Hans Wolfgang Liepmann54
Lipman Bers53
Yu-Chi Ho53
Leonard Eugene Dickson53
Ernst Eduard Kummer53
Fred C. Piper53

Most Descendants

NameDescendantsYear of Degree
Erhard Weigel510511650
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz510431666
Jacob Bernoulli496111684
Johann Bernoulli496081694
Leonhard Euler496011726
Joseph Louis Lagrange47378 
Simeon Denis Poisson47375 
Otto Mencke435061665, 1666
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen435041685
Christian August Hausen435031713
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner435001739
Johann Friedrich Pfaff422121786
Carl Friedrich Gauß415031799
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier31636 
Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet316341827
Karl Christian von Langsdorf305071781
Martin Ohm305051811
Christian Ludwig Gerling304741812
Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz304731853
Julius Plücker304731823
C. Felix (Christian) Klein304721868
C. L. Ferdinand (Carl Louis) Lindemann205061873
Michel Chasles172321814
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg157941765
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel157931810
Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes157931800
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk157921823
Ernst Eduard Kummer157901831
David Hilbert154841885
Christoph Gudermann133091841
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß133081854
H. A. (Hubert Anson) Newton123001850
E. H. (Eliakim Hastings) Moore122971885
Gemma (Jemme Reinerszoon) Frisius79301529, 1536
Johannes (Jan van Ostaeyen) Stadius7925
Adam Haslmayr7924 
Martinus Antonius del Rio79241572, 1574
Jean Baptiste Van Helmont7923 
Jacobus Stupaeus7923 
Franciscus de le Boë Sylvius79221637

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
094331
111252
24444
32441
41760
51255
6952
7736
8594
9518
10385
11355
12304
13278
14223
16181
15173
18141
17128
19106
2098
2191
2271
2470
2562
2350
2743
2836
2633
2930
3025
3125
3425
3323
3221
4018
3816
3515
4214
4113
4612
3611
3711
509
398
527
476
486
516
435
535
444
454
554
664
493
573
583
723
542
602
612
692
762
792
822
561
591
621
641
651
711
731
751
811
861
871
951
1001
1011

Please note that the descendant counter is updated only once a week on Saturday night!