Academic Genealogy
...a general method in which all truths of reason would be
reduced to a kind of calculation. At the same time, this
would be a sort of universal language or script, but infinitely
different from all those imagined previously, because its
symbols and words would direct the reason, and errors - except
those of fact - would be mere mistakes in calculation...
Wilhelm Leibniz (my academic great14-grandfather), 1685
Erhard
Weigel (Universitat Leipzig, 1634) advised:
Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz (Universitat Altdorf, 1666) who advised:
Jacob
Bernoulli (Universitdt Basel, 1684) who advised:
Johann
Bernoulli (Universitdt Basel, 1694) who advised:
Leonhard
Euler (Universitat Basel, 1726) who advised:
Joseph
Louis Lagrange who advised:
Simeon
Denis Poisson who advised:
Michel
Chasles (Ecole Polytechnique, 1814) who advised:
H. A. (Hubert
Anson) Newton (Yale, 1850) who advised:
E. H. Moore
(Yale, 1885) who advised:
Oswald
Veblen (University of Chicago, 1903) who advised:
Philip
Franklin (Princeton 1921) who advised:
Alan
Perlis (1922-1990, PhD MIT 1950, Mathematics) who advised:
Jerry Feldman
(1966) who advised:
Jim Horning (Stanford, 1969) who advised:
John Guttag
(University of Toronto, 1975) who advised:
David Evans (MIT PhD 2000) who advised:
Yan Huang (University of
Virginia, Computer Science PhD Fall 2012)
Karsten Nohl
(University of Virginia, Computer Engineering PhD Spring 2009)
Nathanael Paul
(University of Virginia, Computer Science PhD 2008)
Jinlin Yang
(University of Virginia, Computer Science PhD 2007)
— Leonhard Euler
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching
mathematics.
Simeon Denis Poisson
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan Perlis
Sources:
Tao
Xie's Software Engineering Academic Genealogy (Evans — Perlis)
Mathematics
Genealogy Project (Perlis — Weigel)
