Mathematics Genealogy Project

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(that's Mathematics Genealogy Project.)

Neat, my advisor's advisor's advisor's advisor was Alfred Tarski.

(thatmathchick, you know your advisor⁵ was David Hilbert? (Probably do.) And your advisor¹⁰ was Gauss. That's so badass.)

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[thatmathchick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I met Peter Lax (plenty famous, see Lax-Wendroff method-- which I probably should for some job thingy-- and a mess of Lax convergence theorems about PDEs) at a conference. I babbled something about "Omigod, you're like my advisor's advisor!" He was very nice about it, and said "Yes, I remember Jeffrey. He was a great student."

My advisor claims that one of the links (maybe Friedrichs -> Courant or Courant -> Hilbert) is incorrect. Whether or not it's true, my mathematical ancestors ran in a very impressive crowd. Lots of the great functional analysts. I'm more excited that you can head back and get Dirichlet and Fourier. Via Lipschitz! (see Lipschitz continuity).

Yeah, If I'm this excited about it, I'm going to be a math geek for the long haul.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not worthy of this great legacy, like I've piddled it all away. For a while there I was very sure I wanted to advise graduate students, who could be proud of this lineage. Ah well, plans change, eh?

[eub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you had Dirichlet, Fourier, Lipschitz, also Lagrange, IIRC, several Bernoullis, freakin' Euler...

I felt the same way on looking at it, like I should have grad students or I'm letting the team down.

[ssaiscps.livejournal.com]

Just think of it as ZPG for PhD.