Johan A.C. Kolk

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.