William's Academic Lineage

So, I have two chains of "academic ancestors":

Joyce Friedman, Harvard 1965 Hao Wang, Harvard 1948 Willard Quine, Harvard 1932 Alfred Whitehead, Harvard 1884 W. D. Niven, ? James Clerk Maxwell, Cambridge 1854 William Hopkins, Cambridge 1827 Adam Sedgewick, Cambridge 1811 Thomas Jones, Cambridge 1779 Thomas Postlethwaite, Cambridge 1753 Stephen Whisson, Cambridge 1742 Walter Taylor, Cambridge 1736 Robert Smith, Cambridge 1714 Roger Cotes, Cambridge 1706 Isaac Newton, Cambridge 1665 Isaac Barrow, Cambridge 1648 James Dupont, Cambridge ?

William Rounds, Stanford 1968 Dana Scott, Princeton 1958 Alonzo Church, Princeton 1927 Oswald Veblen, University of Chicago 1903 E. H. Moore, Yale 1885 H. A. Newton, Yale 1850 Michel Chasles, Ecole Polytechnique 1814 Simeon Poisson Joseph Lagrange Leonhard Euler, Universitt Basel 1726 Johann Bernoulli, Universitt Basel 1694 Jacob Bernoulli, Universitt Basel 1684 Gottfried Leibniz, Universitt Altdorf 1666 Erhard Weigel, Universitt Leipzig 1650

All of this is thanks to Alex Borgida, Wikipedia, and the The Mathematics Geneology Project

And going the other direction...there are several former students of mine in academia, and even a few "grandchildren".

• Einat Minkov, University of Haifa
• Bhuwan Dhingra, Duke University
• Zhilin Yang, Tsinghua University
• William Yang Wang, University of California Santa Barbara, who has several PhD students of his own that are professors:
  • Mai Elsherief (Ph.D., 2019, Asst. Prof. at UC San Diego)
  • Xin Eric Wang (Ph.D., 2020, Asst. Prof. at UC Santa Cruz)
  • Wenhu Chen (PhD., 20201, will be Asst. Prof. at Univ. Waterloo in fall 2022)