Mathematical Genealogy

Robert L. Devaney


Listed below, in reverse chronological order, are my mathematical ancestors as well as date and place of their final degree. Visit the great site called the Mathematics Genealogy Project to find out your own mathematical genealogy!


Robert L. Devaney, University of California, Berkeley, 1973

Stephen Smale, University of Michigan, 1957

Raoul Bott, Carnegie Mellon, 1949

Richard Duffin, Illinois, 1935

Harold Mott-Smith, Illinois, 1933

Robert Carmichael, Princeton, 1911

George Birkhoff, Chicago, 1907

E. H. Moore, Yale, 1885

H. A. Newton, Yale, 1850 (BS)

Michel Chasles, Ecole Polytechnique, 1814

Simeon Poisson (?)

Joseph Lagrange (?)

Leonhard Euler, Universitat Basel, 1726

Johann Bernoulli, 1694

Jacob Bernoulli, (?)

Gottfried Leibniz, Universitat Altdorf, 1666

Erhard Weigel, Universitat Leipzig, 1634


Sure wish someone could help me find more info about the missing information above. Send me e-mail if you know something... And be sure to contact the Mathematics Genealogy Project and let them know as well!


Listed below are my PhD students, each of whom received their degrees from Boston University.

Ann K. Sawyer (1984)

Pau Atela (1989)

Marilyn B. Durkin (1989)

Robert Winters (1990)

Mako Haruta (1992)

Núria Fagella (1995)

Eileen Lee (1997)

Ranjit Bhattacharjee (2000)

Mónica Moreno Rocha (2002)

Alexander Frumosu (2003)

Daniel M. Look (2005)

Sebastian Marotta (2008)

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