John Baez points to a remarkable mathematician (having being lead there by Alissa Crans):<\/p>\n
\nYou may have heard of the Mathematics Genealogy Project<\/a>. This is a wonderful database that lets you look up the Ph.D. advisor and students of almost any mathematician. This is how I traced back my genealogy<\/a> to Gauss back in week166.
\nI was feeling pretty proud of myself, too — until I found someone who had two Ph.D. students before he was even born!
\nYes indeed: our friend and caf\u00e9 regular Tom Leinster is listed as having two Ph.D. students: Jose Cruz in 1959, and Steven Sample in 1965. At the time he was teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Later he took an extended sabbatical, got born in England, and transferred to kindergarten. After a lively second career as a youth, he returned to academia and got his Ph.D. at Cambridge under Martin Hyland in 2000. He now has a permanent position at the University of Glasgow. But who can say what he’ll do next?
\nCheck it out soon<\/a>, since it may go away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd yes I posted this just so I could used the words “closed timelike mathematicians.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John Baez points to a remarkable mathematician (having being lead there by Alissa Crans): You may have heard of the Mathematics Genealogy Project. This is a wonderful database that lets you look up the Ph.D. advisor and students of almost any mathematician. This is how I traced back my genealogy to Gauss back in week166. … <\/p>\n
![traced back my genealogy<\/a> to Gauss back in week166.\nI was feeling pretty proud of myself, too — until I found someone who had two Ph.D. students before he was even born!\nYes indeed: our friend and caf\u00e9 regular Tom Leinster is listed as having two Ph.D. students: Jose Cruz in 1959, and Steven Sample in 1965. At the time he was teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Later he took an extended sabbatical, got born in England, and transferred to kindergarten. After a lively second career as a youth, he returned to academia and got his Ph.D. at Cambridge under Martin Hyland in 2000. He now has a permanent position at the University of Glasgow. But who can say what he’ll do next?\n](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/b\/ba\/Baez_descent.png\"){kind=link}