I traced my mathematical lineage back into the middle ages at
"The Mathematics Genealogy Project" at
http://www.genealogy.ams.org/
Look, Mom, I've got blue blood! ...and some inbreeding and black sheep in the family too.
Click HERE for the PDF file that the genealogy web site produced for me.
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Jacob Bernoulli *
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Johann Bernoulli C. Siber
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L. Euler C. Hausen
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J. Lagrange | A. Kaestner
/ \ von Langsdorf |
S. Poisson J.B.Fourier / J. Pfaff
\ / / /
G. Dirichlet M. Ohm /--------- Carl F. Gauss
\ / C.Gerling / \
R.Lipschitz / Friedrich Bessel \
| J.Plueker / |
Felix Klein--------/ Heinrich Scherk C.Guderman
/ \ / /
C. Lindemann \ Ernst Kummer K. Weierstrass
| \ \ /
David Hilbert \ Hermann Schwarz
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Erhard Schmidt Ludwig Bieberbach Leopold Fejer
\ / /
Heinz Hopf George Polya *
\ / |
James Stoker * * Arthur Cayley
/ / \ |
| Walter Ball G.Darwin A.Forsyth
| | \ /
| E.W.Barnes A.Love E.Whittacker
| | \ /
| John Littlewood G.H.Hardy
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| Donald Spencer
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Louis Nirenberg Joseph J.Kohn
\ /
Norberto Kerzman
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S. Bell