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Mathematical Genealogy of the Union College Department of Mathematics Gemma (Jemme Reinerszoon) Frisius Mathematical Genealogy of the Union College Department of Mathematics Université Catholique de Louvain 1529, 1536 The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a service of North Dakota State University and the American Mathematical Society. Johannes (Jan van Ostaeyen) Stadius http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ Université Paris IX - Dauphine / Université Catholique de Louvain Justus (Joost Lips) Lipsius Martinus Antonius del Rio Adam Haslmayr Université Catholique de Louvain 1569 Collège de France / Université Catholique de Louvain / Universidad de Salamanca 1572, 1574 Erycius (Henrick van den Putte) Puteanus Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Jacobus Stupaeus Primary Advisor Secondary Advisor Universität zu Köln / Université Catholique de Louvain 1595 Université Catholique de Louvain Erhard Weigel Arnold Geulincx Franciscus de le Boë Sylvius Universität Leipzig 1650 Université Catholique de Louvain / Universiteit Leiden 1646, 1658 Universität Basel 1637 Union College Faculty in Mathematics Otto Mencke Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus Key Universität Leipzig 1665, 1666 Universität Altdorf 1666 Universiteit Leiden 1669, 1674 Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen Jacob Bernoulli Christian M. von Wolff Universität Leipzig 1685 Universität Basel 1684 Universität Leipzig 1704 Christian August Hausen Johann Bernoulli Martin Knutzen Marcus Herz Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1713 Universität Basel 1694 Leonhard Euler Abraham Gotthelf Kästner Franz Josef Ritter von Gerstner Immanuel Kant Universität Basel 1726 Universität Leipzig 1739 Universität Königsberg 1770 Joseph Johann von Littrow Joseph Louis Lagrange Friedrich Anton Justus Thibaut Johann Tobias Meyer d.J. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Johann Friedrich Pfaff Bernard(us) Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano Karl Reinhold Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1796 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1773 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1765 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1786 University of Prague 1805 John Cranke Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman Simeon Denis Poisson Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier Karl Christian von Langsdorf Enno Heeren Dirksen Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Carl Friedrich Gauß August Ferdinand Möbius Franz Moth Józef Maximilian Petzval Friedrich August Trendelenburg Franz Jakob Clemens University of Cambridge 1774 Moscow State University 1834 École Polytechnique Universität Erfurt 1781 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1820 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1800 Universität Helmstedt 1799 Universität Leipzig 1815 University of Prague 1822 University of Pest 1832 Universität Berlin 1826 John Dawson Thomas Jones Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev Michel Chasles Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet Martin Ohm Christian Ludwig Gerling Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Christoph Gudermann Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Andreas von Ettingshausen Johann Franz Friedrich Encke Otto Wilhelm Fiedler Johannes Frischauf Karl Friesach Franz Clemens Brentano University of Cambridge 1782 University of St. Petersburg 1849 École Polytechnique 1814 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1827 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1811 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1812 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1825 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1841 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1810 Universität Wien Universität Berlin 1844 Universität Leipzig 1859 Universität Wien 1861 Universität Wien 1846 Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen 1862 Adam Sedgwick Andrei Andreyevich Markov H. A. (Hubert Anson) Newton C. Émile (Charles) Picard Gaston Darboux Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz Julius Plücker Otto Hesse Friedrich Julius Richelot Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk Jožef Stefan Carl Christian Bruhns Emil Weyr Gustav Ritter von Escherich Kazimierz Twardowski University of Cambridge 1811 University of St. Petersburg 1884 Yale University 1850 École Normale Supérieure Paris 1877 École Normale Supérieure Paris 1866 Universität Berlin 1853 Philipps-Universität Marburg 1823 Universität Königsberg 1840 Universität Königsberg 1831 Universität Berlin 1823 Universität Wien 1858 Universität Berlin 1856 University of Prague 1870 Technische Universität Graz 1873 Universität Wien 1891 William Hopkins Georgy Fedoseevich Voronoy E. H. (Eliakim Hastings) Moore Stanislaw Zaremba C. Felix (Christian) Klein Carl Gottfried Neumann Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß Ernst Eduard Kummer Ludwig Boltzmann Hugo Hans von Seeliger Wilhelm Wirtinger Stanislaw Lesniewski University of Cambridge 1830 University of St. Petersburg 1897 Yale University 1885 Université Paris IV-Sorbonne 1889 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1868 Universität Königsberg 1856 Universität Königsberg 1854 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1831 Universität Wien 1866 Universität Leipzig 1872 Universität Wien 1887 University of Lwów 1912 Arthur Cayley Oswald Veblen Wacław Sierpiñski C. L. Ferdinand (Carl Louis) Lindemann William Edward Story Hermann Amandus Schwarz Paul Du Bois-Reymond Gustav Herglotz Wilhelm Blaschke Alfred Tarski University of Oxford / University College Dublin / Université de Leyde 1864/1865/1875 The University of Chicago 1903 Uniwersytet Jagielloński 1906 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1873 Universität Leipzig 1875 Universität Berlin 1864 Universität Berlin 1859 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1900 Universität Wien 1908 Uniwersytet Warszawski 1924 Henry Frederick Baker Alonzo Church John Henry Constantine Whitehead Stefan Mazurkiewicz David Hilbert Solomon Lefschetz Leopold (Lipót) Fejér Otto Ludwig Hölder Shiing-Shen Chern Robert Lawson Vaught Donald Anthony Martin Princeton University 1927 Princeton University 1930 University of Lwów 1913 Universität Königsberg 1885 Clark University 1911 Eötvös Loránd University 1902 Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen 1882 Universität Hamburg 1936 University of California, Berkeley 1954 B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1962 John A. Todd Dana S. Scott William Vallance Douglas Hodge Ioan M. James Karol Borsuk Erhard Schmidt Norman Earl Steenrod Marcel Riesz Emil Artin Thomas Francis Banchoff James Earl Baumgartner Eugene Meyer Kleinberg University of Cambridge 1932 Princeton University 1958 University of Oxford 1953 Uniwersytet Warszawski 1931 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1905 Princeton University 1936 Eötvös Loránd University 1912 Universität Leipzig 1921 University of California, Berkeley 1964 University of California, Berkeley 1970 The Rockefeller University 1969 Roger Penrose Nicolas Daniels Goodman Michael Francis Atiyah Brian F. Steer Samuel Eilenberg Salomon Bochner Franklin Paul Peterson Wu-Chung Hsiang C. Einar (Carl) Hille John Torrence Tate, Jr. Davide P. 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