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
Leonard Eugene Dickson53
Yu-Chi Ho53
Lipman Bers53
Ernst Eduard Kummer53
Fred C. Piper53

Most Descendants

NameDescendantsYear of Degree
Erhard Weigel510921650
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz510841666
Jacob Bernoulli496521684
Johann Bernoulli496491694
Leonhard Euler496421726
Joseph Louis Lagrange47418 
Simeon Denis Poisson47415 
Otto Mencke435441665, 1666
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen435421685
Christian August Hausen435411713
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner435381739
Johann Friedrich Pfaff422461786
Carl Friedrich Gauß415371799
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier31668 
Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet316661827
Karl Christian von Langsdorf305391781
Martin Ohm305371811
Christian Ludwig Gerling305061812
Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz305051853
Julius Plücker305051823
C. Felix (Christian) Klein305041868
C. L. Ferdinand (Carl Louis) Lindemann205331873
Michel Chasles172411814
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg158081765
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel158071810
Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes158071800
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk158061823
Ernst Eduard Kummer158041831
David Hilbert155031885
Christoph Gudermann133231841
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß133221854
H. A. (Hubert Anson) Newton123051850
E. H. (Eliakim Hastings) Moore123021885
Gemma (Jemme Reinerszoon) Frisius79361529, 1536
Johannes (Jan van Ostaeyen) Stadius7931
Martinus Antonius del Rio79301572, 1574
Adam Haslmayr7930 
Jean Baptiste Van Helmont7929 
Jacobus Stupaeus7929 
Franciscus de le Boë Sylvius79281637

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
094421
111284
24448
32438
41762
51261
6950
7734
8596
9517
10386
11354
12307
13276
14225
16182
15172
18141
17128
19107
2098
2190
2271
2471
2562
2350
2743
2836
2633
2930
3426
3025
3125
3222
3322
4018
3816
3515
4214
4113
3611
3711
4611
509
398
477
527
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!