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Steven Woods
Academic Ancestry
Direct doctoral lineage for Steven Woods using the advisor chain recorded by the Mathematics Genealogy Project, stretching from modern computer science into early modern mathematics and philosophy.
Direct Lineage
Qiang Yang
Degree Ph.D. 1989, University of Maryland College ParkDana Nau
Degree Ph.D. 1979, Duke UniversityAlan Biermann
Degree Ph.D. 1968, University of California, BerkeleyArthur Gill
Degree Ph.D. 1959, University of California, BerkeleyAram Thomasian
Degree Ph.D. 1956, University of California, BerkeleyDavid Blackwell
Degree Ph.D. 1941, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJoseph Doob
Degree Ph.D. 1932, Harvard UniversityJoseph Walsh
Degree Ph.D. 1920, Harvard UniversityMaxime Bôcher
Degree Dr. rer. nat. 1891, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenC. Felix Klein
Degree Dr. phil. 1868, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnJulius Plücker
Degree Ph.D. 1823, Philipps-Universität MarburgChristian Gerling
Degree Dr. phil. 1812, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenCarl Friedrich Gauß
Degree Ph.D. 1799, Universität HelmstedtJohann Friedrich Pfaff
Degree Dr. phil. 1786, Georg-August-Universität GöttingenAbraham Gotthelf Kästner
Degree Ph.D. 1739, Universität LeipzigChristian August Hausen
Degree Dr. phil. 1713, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-WittenbergJohann Christoph Wichmannshausen
Degree M.A. 1685, Universität LeipzigOtto Mencke
Degree Ph.D. 1665, Universität LeipzigJakob Thomasius
Degree Magister der Philosophie 1643, Universität LeipzigFriedrich Leibniz
Degree Magister der Philosophie 1622, Universität LeipzigContext
Historical significance: This lineage follows the direct advisor chain recorded by the Mathematics Genealogy Project,
connecting Steven Woods' doctoral work in computer science to a much earlier scholarly tradition centered in Leipzig, Göttingen, and Bonn.