Academic lineage
The academic line of my Ph.D. advisor at Georgia Tech, traced back sixteen generations.
Doctoral advisor Teacher or mentor Tap a name for the thesis and links.
Me
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Prashant J. Nair University of British Columbia
Generation 1 Ph.D. advisor
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Moinuddin K. Qureshi Georgia Tech; memory systems, reliability and security
Generation 2 Grand-advisor
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Yale N. Patt UT Austin; HPS microarchitecture and two-level branch prediction
Minimal Module Synthesis of Switching Functions
Advisor of Moinuddin K. Qureshi
Generation 3 Great-grand-advisors
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Richard L. Mattson IBM Research; stack-distance analysis of storage hierarchies
The Analysis and Synthesis of Adaptive Systems Which Use Networks of Threshold Elements
Advisor of Yale N. Patt
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C. Hugh Mays Threshold logic; later at IBM and Fairchild. His own advisor is not on record.
Adaptive Threshold Logic
Advisor of Yale N. Patt (co-advisor)
Generation 4
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Bernard Widrow Stanford; the LMS algorithm and ADALINE (1929–2025)
A Study of Rough Amplitude Quantization by Means of Nyquist Sampling Theory
Advisor of Richard L. Mattson
Generation 5
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William K. Linvill MIT and Stanford; sampled-data systems (1919–1980)
Generation 6
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Ernst A. Guillemin MIT; circuit theory and network synthesis (1898–1970)
Theorie der Frequenzvervielfachung durch Eisenkernkoppelung
Advisor of William K. Linvill
Generation 7
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Arnold Sommerfeld Munich; atomic and theoretical physics (1868–1951)
Die willkürlichen Functionen in der mathematischen Physik
Advisor of Ernst A. Guillemin
Generation 8
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Ferdinand von Lindemann Königsberg and Munich; proved that π is transcendental (1852–1939)
Über unendlich kleine Bewegungen und über Kraftsysteme bei allgemeiner projektivischer Maßbestimmung
Advisor of Arnold Sommerfeld
Generation 9
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Felix Klein Göttingen; the Erlangen program and the Klein bottle (1849–1925)
Über die Transformation der allgemeinen Gleichung des zweiten Grades zwischen Linien-Koordinaten auf eine kanonische Form
Advisor of Ferdinand von Lindemann
Generation 10
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Julius Plücker Bonn; Plücker coordinates and line geometry (1801–1868)
Generalem analyseos applicationem ad ea quae geometriae altioris et mechanicae basis et fundamenta sunt e serie Tayloria deducit
Advisor of Felix Klein
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Rudolf Lipschitz Bonn; Lipschitz continuity (1832–1903)
Determinatio status magnetici viribus inducentibus commoti in ellipsoide
Advisor of Felix Klein (co-advisor)
Generation 11
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Christian Ludwig Gerling Marburg; geodetic triangulation (1788–1864)
Methodi projectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit…
Advisor of Julius Plücker
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Martin Ohm Berlin; complex exponents and the name "golden section" (1792–1872)
De elevatione serierum infinitarum secundi ordinis ad potestatem exponentis indeterminati
Advisor of Rudolf Lipschitz (co-advisor)
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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet Berlin and Göttingen; number theory and analysis (1805–1859)
Advisor of Rudolf Lipschitz
Generation 12
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Carl Friedrich Gauss Göttingen; number theory, geometry and astronomy (1777–1855)
Demonstratio nova theorematis omnem functionem algebraicam rationalem integram unius variabilis in factores reales primi vel secundi gradus resolvi posse
Advisor of Christian Ludwig Gerling
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Karl Christian von Langsdorf Heidelberg; hydraulics and machine design (1757–1834)
Advisor of Martin Ohm
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Siméon Denis Poisson Paris; the Poisson distribution and equation (1781–1840)
Advisor of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (mentor)
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Joseph Fourier Paris; Fourier series and the theory of heat (1768–1830)
Advisor of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (mentor)
Generation 13
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Johann Friedrich Pfaff Helmstedt and Halle; Pfaffians (1765–1825)
Commentatio de ortibus et occasibus siderum apud auctores classicos commemoratis
Advisor of Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange Turin, Berlin and Paris; analytical mechanics and the calculus of variations (1736–1813)
Advisor of Siméon Denis Poisson (mentor), Joseph Fourier (mentor)
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Pierre-Simon Laplace Paris; celestial mechanics and probability (1749–1827)
Advisor of Siméon Denis Poisson (mentor)
Generation 14
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Johann Elert Bode Berlin Observatory; the Titius–Bode law and the name of Uranus (1747–1826)
Advisor of Johann Friedrich Pfaff (co-advisor)
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Abraham Gotthelf Kästner Göttingen; mathematics textbooks and encyclopedias (1719–1800)
Theoria radicum in aequationibus
Advisor of Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Karl Christian von Langsdorf (teacher)
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Leonhard Euler Basel, St Petersburg and Berlin; analysis, mechanics and graph theory (1707–1783)
Dissertatio physica de sono
Advisor of Joseph-Louis Lagrange (by correspondence)
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Giovanni Battista Beccaria Turin; electricity (1716–1781)
Advisor of Joseph-Louis Lagrange (teacher)
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert Paris; the wave equation and the Encyclopédie (1717–1783)
Advisor of Pierre-Simon Laplace (mentor)
Generation 15
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Johann Georg Büsch Hamburg; mathematics teacher and writer on commerce (1728–1800)
Advisor of Johann Elert Bode (teacher)
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Christian August Hausen Leipzig; early experiments with electricity (1693–1743)
De corpore scissuris figurisque non cruetando ductu
Advisor of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
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Johann Bernoulli Basel; calculus and the brachistochrone problem (1667–1748)
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Léonor Caron
Advisor of Jean le Rond d'Alembert (teacher)
Generation 16
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Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen Wittenberg; Near Eastern languages (1663–1727)
Advisor of Christian August Hausen
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Johann Andreas Planer Wittenberg and Tübingen
Advisor of Christian August Hausen (co-advisor)
Further back
Johann Bernoulli learned mathematics from his brother Jacob Bernoulli. Other lines run through Pierre Varignon to Nicolas Malebranche, and through Otto Mencke to Jakob Thomasius, who also taught Leibniz. The Mathematics Genealogy Project follows some of them back into the 1500s.
Sources
Advisor links follow thesis records and acknowledgments, cross-checked against the Mathematics Genealogy Project and Wikipedia. Before about 1810 most of these links are teachers and mentors rather than formal doctoral advisors; France awarded no doctorates in this sense before 1808.