Johan A.C. Kolk


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Mathematical Genealogy

My thesis advisors were: J.J. Duistermaat (Utrecht University) and V.S. Varadarajan (University of California at Los Angeles).

Every person in the two lists below is a student of the next, place and year describe the thesis.

  • J.A.C. Kolk, Utrecht 1977
  • J.J. Duistermaat, Utrecht 1968
  • H. Freudenthal, Berlin 1930
  • H. Hopf, Berlin 1925
  • E. Schmidt, Göttingen 1905
  • D. Hilbert, Königsberg 1885
  • C.L.F. Lindemann, Erlangen-Nürnberg 1873
  • C.F. Klein, Bonn 1868
  • R. Lipschitz, Berlin 1853
  • G. Dirichlet, Bonn 1827
  • S.D. Poisson, Paris 1800 and J.-B. Fourier, Paris
  • J.L. Lagrange, Torino 1754
  • L. Euler, Basel 1726
  • Johann Bernoulli, Basel 1690
  • Jacob Bernoulli, Basel 1684
  • N. Malebranche, 1672
  • G.W. Leibniz, Leipzig 1666
  • J. Thomasius, Leipzig 1643
  • F. Leibniz, Leipzig 1622
  • J.A.C. Kolk, Utrecht 1977
  • V.S. Varadarajan, Calcutta 1960
  • C.R. Rao, London 1948
  • R.A. Fisher, Cambridge 1926
  • J.H. Jeans, Cambridge
  • E.T. Whittaker, Cambridge
  • A.R. Forsyth, Cambridge 1881
  • A. Cayley, Oxford 1875
  • W. Hopkins, Cambridge 1830
  • A. Sedgwick, Cambridge 1811
  • T. Jones, Cambridge 1782
  • T. Postlethwaite, Cambridge 1756
  • S. Whisson, Cambridge 1742
  • W. Taylor, Cambridge 1723
  • R. Smith, Cambridge 1715
  • R. Cotes, Cambridge 1706
  • I. Newton, Cambridge 1668
  • I. Barrow, Cambridge 1652
  • V. Viviani, Pisa 1642
  • G. Galilei, Pisa 1585
  • O. Ricci, Brescia
  • N. Tartaglia

My Erdös number is 3 (Erdös - Tijdeman - Beukers - Kolk). For fascinating results on the sociology of mathematics use MR Collaboration Distance.

The Mathematics Genealogy Project provides more details.