Seok-Won Lee's Academic Genealogy

David C. Rine Tree
Bruce G. Buchanan's Tree
My PhD advisor at George Mason: Rine, David C., 1970 (Math, U of Iowa)

My MSAI/PhD advisor at the University of Pittsburgh: Bruce Buchanan
(b. July 7, 1940, St. Louis) (Ph.D. Philosophy, Michigan State University, 1966: "Logics of Scientific Discovery")

Drury William Wall, Ph.D. University of Michigan 1954 Dissertation: Some Results in the Theory of Algebras with Radical

Buchanan's advisor: Gerald Massey
(b. Feb 11, 1934, Wauseon, Ohio)(Ph.D. Philosophy, Princeton University, 1964: "The Philosophy of Space ")

Robert McDowell Thrall, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1937, Dissertation: Metabelian Groups and Trilinear Forms

Massey's advisor: Carl Gustav Hempel
(b. Jan. 8, 1905, Oranienburg, Germany; d. 1997, Princeton, NJ)
(Philosophy, Berlin, 1934: "Beitrage zur logischen analyse des wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriffs")
(Hempel worked with Reichenbach until Reichenbach was forced to leave Germany in 1933; his final year at Erlangen was spent under the supervision of Wolfgang Kohler and Nicolai Hartmann.)

Henry Roy Brahana, Ph.D. Princeton University 1920, Dissertation: Systems of Circuits on Two-Dimensional Manifolds

Hempel's advisor: Hans Reichenbach
(b. Sept. 26,1891, Hamburg, Germany; d .April 9, 1953,Los Angeles, CA)
(Philosophy, Erlangen, 1915: "Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit fur die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit")

Oswald Veblen, Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1903, Dissertation: A System of Axioms for Geometry

Reichenbach's two advisors:

  • Paul Hensel
    (Dr. phil., Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, 1885: "Uber die Beziehung des reinen Ich bei Fichte zur Einheit der Apperception bei Kant")
  • Max Noether
    (b. September 24, 1844, Mannheim, Baden, Germany; d. December 13, 1921, Erlangen, Germany)
    (Dr. phil. Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, 1868)
    Based on information from Hans Reichenbach's widow, I had previously listed the second advisor as Emmy Noether. I've recently learned that this did not match up with Reichenbach's dissertation's signature page, which has Max Noether's signature.

E. H. (Eliakim Hastings) Moore Ph.D. Yale University 1885, Dissertation: Extensions of Certain Theorems of Clifford and Cayley in the Geometry of n Dimensions

Noether's two advisors:

  • Ludwig Otto Hesse
    (b. April 22, 1811, Kvnigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia); d. August 4, 1874, Munich, Germany)
    (Dr. phil. Universitat Kvnigsberg 1840)
  • Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
    (b. March 12, 1824, Kvnigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia); d. October 17, 1887, Berlin, Germany)
    (Dr. phil. Universitat Konigsberg 1847: "De criteriis quibus cognoscatur an aequatio quinti gradus irreductibilis algebraice resolvi posset / De parallaxi stellae Argelandriae")
    Kirchhoff's advisor was also Otto Hesse

UnitedStatesH. A. (Hubert Anson) Newton, B.S. Yale University 1850

Hesse's advisor: Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
(b. December 10, 1804, Potsdam, Prussia; d. February 18, 1851, Berlin, Germany)
(Ph.D. Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 1825: "Disquisitiones Analyticae de Fractionibus Simplicibus")

France

Michel Chasles , Ph.D. École Polytechnique 1814,  

Jacobi's advisor: Enno Heeren Dirksen
(Ph.D. Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, 1820: "Historiae progressuum instrumentorum mensurae angulorum accuratiori interserventium inde a Tob. Meyeri temporibus ad umbratione non de artificio multiplicationis")

Simeon Denis Poisson, Ph.D.

His two advisors:

  • Friedrich Anton Justus Thibaut
    (b. January 4, 1772, Hameln, Hanover; d. March 28, 1840, Heidelberg)
    (Dr. phil. Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, 1796: "De genuina iuris personarum et rerum indole, veroque huius divisionis pretio")
    (Advisor unknown)
  • Johann Tobias Meyer d.J.
    (b. February 17, 1723, Marbach, Wurttemberg, Germany; d. February 20, 1762, Gottingen, Germany)
    (Ph.D. Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, 1773: "Tetragonometriae specimen I")

Joseph Louis Lagrange, Ph.D.

Meyer's advisor: Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner
(b. Sept 27, 1719, Leipzig, Germany; d. June 20, 1800, in Gottingen, Germany)
(Ph.D. Universitat Leipzig, 1739: "Theoria radicum in aequationibus")

SwitzerlandLeonhard Euler, Ph.D. Universität Basel 1726,  

Kaestner's advisor: Christian A. Hausen
(b. 1693, d. 1743)
(Dr. phil. Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg 1713: "De corpore scissuris figurisque non cruetando ductu")

Johann Bernoulli, 1694

Hausen's advisor: Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
(Ph.D. Universitat Leipzig, 1685: "Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae")

Jacob Bernoulli

GermanyWichmannshausen's advisor: Otto Mencken
(Ph.D. Universitat Leipzig, 1668: "Thomae Hobbesii Epicureismum historice delineatum sistit")

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Dr. jur. Universität Altdorf 1666,

Erhard Weigel, Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1650

Germany

 Philipp Müller (Magister artium Universität Leipzig, 1604)  Jakob Thomasius (Magister der Philosophie Universität Leipzig 1643)
   Christoph Meurer (Magister artium Universität Leipzig, 1582)  Friedrich Leibniz (advisor unknown)
      Moritz Valentin Steinmetz (Magister artium, Medicinae Dr. Universität Leipzig, 1550, 1567)   

  Georg Joachim von Leuchen Rheticus (Magister artium M.-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, 1535) 

Johann Hoffmann (advisor unknown)

 

    Nicolaus Copernicus (Juris utriusque Doctor Uniweryet Jagiellonski/Universita di Bologna/Universita degli Studi di Ferrara/Universita di Padova, 1499) 

Johannes VolmarMagister artium Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1515 Germany  

   Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara (Universita di Firenze, 1483) 

Leonhard (Leonard Vitreatoris z Dobczyc) von DobschützMagister artium Uniwersytet Jagielloński 1489 (advisor unknown)

Bonifazius Erasmi, Magister artium Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1509

(advisor unknown)
 

  Johannes Regiomontanus (Magister artium Universität Leipzig/Universität Wien, 1457) Germany-Austria

Luca Pacioli (advisor unknown)

   
   Georg von Peuerbach (Magister artium Universität Wien, 1440) 

Basilios Bessarion

Mystras 1436Greece

   
   Johannes von Gmunden (Magister artium Universität Wien, 1406) Austria Georgios Plethon Gemistos
1380, 1393
Dissertation: Nómoi (Book of Laws)
   

   Heinrich von Langenstein (Magister artium, Theol. Dr. Université de Paris, 1363, 1375) France

advisor unknown

Demetrios Kydones,

Elissaeus Judaeus (advisor unknown)

 

   
  Nilos Kabasilas    

The main library of Universität Leipzig in May 2008 (left), The original dissertation of Otto Mencken, 1668, (right), Erhard Weigel's dissertation, 1650, was in the library of Dresden.

The dissertation was much smaller than the letter size (left), and well kept in a special case (right).