Comment on My PhD GenealogyComments−lpolovets3yI 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=38586Bernoulli -> Euler -> Lagrange -> Poisson and Fourier−kragen3yThe Euler -> Lagrange link is sort of dodgy, though. Lagrange was an autodidact. What he got from Euler was Euler's position at court, not a doctorate, though they did collaborate on some research before that.
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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
The Euler -> Lagrange link is sort of dodgy, though. Lagrange was an autodidact. What he got from Euler was Euler's position at court, not a doctorate, though they did collaborate on some research before that.