| Name | Ph. D. Granted by: | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Emmett Bradley | University of Toronto | 1989 |
| Mustafa Agah Akcoglu | Brown University | 1963 |
| Rafael Van Severen Chacon | Syracuse University | 1956 |
| Kai Lai Chung | Princeton University | 1947 |
| John Wilder Tukey [1915-2000] | Princeton University | 1938 |
| Solomon Lefschetz [1884-1972] | Clark University | 1911 |
| William Edward Story [1850-1930] | University of Leipzig | 1875 |
| Christian Felix Klein [1849-1925] | University of Bonn | 1868 |
| Julius Plücker [1801-1868] | University of Marburg | 1823 |
| Christian Ludwig Gerling [1788-1864] | University of Göttingen | 1812 |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss [1777-1855] | University of Helmstedt | 1799 |
| Johann Friedrich Pfaff [1765-1825] | University of Göttingen | (no Ph. D) |
| Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner [1719-1800] | University of Leipzig | 1739 |
| Christian August Hausen | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | 1713 |
| Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen | University of Leipzig | 1685 |
| Otto Mencke | University of Leipzig | 1665 |
Note that Plücker died in 1868, the same year that Klein defended his thesis. Klein's dissertation examiner was actually Lipschitz, and beginning with him, I can trace my lineage back through a different line of academic advisors and mentors as follows:
| Name | Ph. D., if applicable |
|---|---|
| Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz [1832-1903] | University of Berlin, 1853 |
| Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet [1805-1859] | University of Cologne (honorary), 1825 |
| Simeon Denis Poisson [1781-1840] | |
| Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier [1768-1830] | |
| Joseph Louis Lagrange [1736-1813] | |
| Leonard Euler [1707-1783] | |
| Johann Bernoulli [1667-1748] | |
| Jacob Bernoulli [1654-1705] |
Jacob Bernoulli studied theology and philosophy at the University of Basel, not mathematics. Afterwards, he was mentored by a number of mathematicians, including Malebranche, Hudde, Boyle, and Hooke. However, it is fair to say that the Bernoulli brothers founded their own mathematical school (and dynasty), studying Leibniz, Descartes and Galileo in the original, and spreading the word about Leibniz' calculus to the continental European community.
Thanks to Harry Coonce for putting together The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Thanks also to The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the University of St. Andrews, for most of the biographical information.