Ph.D. Genealogy

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Guy Tree

  • Joonseok Lee ( Georgia Institute of Technology, Computer Science, 2015)
    Thesis: Local Approaches for Collaborative Filtering
  • Guy Lebanon ( Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science, 2005)
    Thesis: Riemannian Geometry and Statistical Machine Learning
  • John D. Lafferty ( Princeton University, Mathematics, 1986)
    Thesis: The density manifold and configuration space quantization
  • Edward Nelson ( University of Chicago, Mathematics, 1955)
    Thesis: On the Operator Theory of Markoff Processes
  • Irving Ezra Segal ( Yale University, Mathematics, 1940)
    Thesis: Ring Properties of Certain Classes of Functions
  • Einar Hille ( Stockholm University, Mathematics, 1918)
    Thesis: Some Problems Concerning Spherical Harmonics
  • Marcel Riesz ( Eotvos Lorand University, Mathematics, 1912)
    Thesis: Summierbare trigonometrische Reihen und Potenzreihen (Summable trigonometric series and power series)
  • Lipót Fejér ( Eotvos Lorand University, Mathematics, 1902)
    Thesis: (Unknown)
  • Hermann Schwarz ( Universitat Berlin, Mathematics, 1884)
    Thesis: De superficiebus in planum explicabilibus primorum septem ordinum
  • E. K. Kummer ( Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Mathematics, 1831)
    Thesis: De cosinuum et sinuum potestatibus secundum cosinus et sinus arcuum multiplicium evolvendis
  • Heinrich Sherk ( Universitat Berlin, 1823)
    Thesis: De evolvenda functione .... disquisitiones nonnullae analyticae
  • Friedrich Bessel ( Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1810)
    Thesis: Mathematics Subject Classification: 85—Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss ( Universität Helmstedt, 1799)
    Thesis: Demonstratio nova theorematis omnem functionem algebraicam rationalem integram unius variabilis in factores reales primi vel secundi gradus resolvi posse
  • Johann Friedrich Pfaff ( Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1786)
    Thesis: Commentatio de ortibus et occasibus siderum apud auctores classicos commemoratis
  • Abraham Kaestner ( Universitat Leipzig, 1739)
    Thesis: Theoria radicum in aequationibus
  • Christian August Hausen ( Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1713)
    Thesis: De corpore scissuris figurisque non cruetando ductu
  • Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen ( Universität Leipzig, 1685)
    Thesis: Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae
  • Otto Mencke ( Universität Leipzig, 1665)
    Thesis: Ex Theologia naturali -- De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam
  • Jakob Thomasius ( Universität Leipzig, M.A, 1643)
    (Ph.D. was not awarded prior to 1652 in Germany. [wikipedia])
  • Friedrich Leibniz ( Universität Leipzig, M.A, 1622)

Hongyuan Tree

  • Joonseok Lee ( Georgia Institute of Technology, Computer Science, 2015)
    Thesis: Local Approaches for Collaborative Filtering
  • Hongyuan Zha ( Stanford University, Scientific Computing, 1993)
    Thesis: The Singular Value Decompositions: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
  • Gene Howard Golub ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mathematics, 1959)
    Thesis: The Use of Chebyshev Matrix Polynomials in the Iterative Solution of Linear Equations Compared to the Method of Successive Overrelaxation
  • Abraham Haskel Taub ( Princeton University, 1935)
    Thesis: Quantum Equations in Cosmological Spaces
  • Howard Percy Robertson ( California Institute of Technology, Mathematics and Physics, 1925)
    Thesis: On the Dynamical Space-Time which Contains a Conformal Euclidean 3-Space
  • Harry Bateman ( Johns Hopkins University, 1913)
    Thesis: The Quartic Curve and Its Inscribed Configurations
  • Frank Morley ( University of Cambridge, B.A, 1898)
    Thesis: (Unknown)

Erdős Number

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  • Joonseok's Erdős Number = 4.
  • The following coauthors of mine are with Erdős Number = 3, connecting me to Erdős Paul: