This information was taken from the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Me: William Edwin Clark,
Ph.D. Tulane University, 1964.
- My Advisor: Alfred
Hoblitzelle Clifford, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology 1933.
- Clifford's Advisor: Eric Temple
Bell, Ph.D.
Columbia University
1912
- Bell's
Advisor: Frank Nelson
Cole,
Ph.D. Harvard
University 1886.
- Cole's Advisor: C. Felix
Klein, Ph.D. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn
1868.
- Klein's Advisors: Rudolf
Otto Sigismund Lipschitz, Ph.D. Universität Berlin
1853 and Julius Plücker, Ph.D. Universität Marburg
1823.
- Lipschitz' Advisor: Gustav
Peter Lejeune Dirichlet.
- Dirichlet's Advisors:
Simeon Denis Poisson and Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier.
- Advisor of both Fourier and
Poisson: Joseph Louis Lagrange.
- Lagrange (1736-1813)
apparently was self-taught and had no advisor.
Since I wrote the above more links have been added
to the Mathematics Genealogy Project and I can now trace my ancestory back to
Gauss himself.
For more information on some of the mathematicians
listed above see:
The
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. by
John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson, St Andrews University,
Scotland
The
History of Mathematics by David
R. Wilkins
Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland