{"id":117,"date":"2010-12-17T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglets.org\/?p=117"},"modified":"2016-10-24T21:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T21:08:32","slug":"the-academic-descent-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/the-academic-descent-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Academic Descent to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

How interesting, today I learned that Derek Burgess, the PhD supervisor of my PhD supervisor (Brian McMaster) was himself supervised by Frank Smithies. With a little help from the Mathematical Genealogy Project<\/a> this has helped me work out my academic \"parentage\".<\/p>\n

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  1. Colin Turner, Queen's University of Belfast, 1997<\/li>\n
  2. Brian McMaster, Queen's University of Belfast, 1972<\/li>\n
  3. Derek Burgess, University of Cambridge, 1951<\/li>\n
  4. Frank Smithies<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1937<\/li>\n
  5. G. H. Hardy<\/a>, University of Cambridge<\/li>\n
  6. Edmund Whittaker<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1895<\/li>\n
  7. Andrew Forsyth<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1881<\/li>\n
  8. Arthur Cayley<\/a>, University of Oxford \/ University College Dublin \/ Universiteit Leiden, 1864,1865,1875<\/li>\n
  9. William Hopkins<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1830 (Note his many famous students)<\/li>\n
  10. Adam Sedgwick<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1811<\/li>\n
  11. Thomas Jones<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1782<\/li>\n
  12. Thomas Postlethwaite<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1756<\/li>\n
  13. Stephen Whisson<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1742<\/li>\n
  14. Walter Taylor<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1723<\/li>\n
  15. Robert Smith<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1715<\/li>\n
  16. Roger Cotes<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1706<\/li>\n
  17. Isaac Newton<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1668<\/li>\n
  18. Isaac Barrow<\/a>, University of Cambridge, 1652<\/li>\n
  19. Vincenzio Viviani<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Galileo Galilei<\/a>, University of Pisa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I think I'll stop there. I found this absolutely fascinating, many notable figures, and Hopkins supervised many famous figures. It's a shame I could never hope to live up to such a line!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How interesting, today I learned that Derek Burgess, the PhD supervisor of my PhD supervisor (Brian McMaster) was himself supervised by Frank Smithies. With a little help from the Mathematical Genealogy Project this has helped me work out my academic \"parentage\". Colin Turner, Queen's University of Belfast, 1997 Brian McMaster, Queen's University of Belfast, 1972 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[158,175,31,119],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-stem","tag-genealogy","tag-lineage","tag-mathematics","tag-12-stem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52I4w-1T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}