A little bit of academic genealogy

2022-07-06

I got aware of the existence of the Maths Genealogy Project thanks to a friend. It aims at connecting mathematicians (and therefore computer scientists considering the root of the field) together through academic ancestry: A PhD supervisor of someone being the equivalent of a "parent".

There are quite a few projects on github to scrap and vizualize the data. I used mgptree by Joe Thomas to make this pretty cool picture of my own genealogy tree.