# Mathematical Genealogy

DevFeed: [Mathematical Genealogy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mathematical-genealogy-40413.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/2017/06/22/mathematical-genealogy/>)

Published: 2017-06-22T09:00:10Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithms.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [genealogy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/genealogy.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphs.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [scraping](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scraping.md>)

## AI overview

A side project explores the Mathematical Genealogy database as a directed graph of mathematicians and their thesis-advisor relationships. The article describes scraping a database snapshot, publishing the raw data and scripts, and building a browser-based visualizer with search and graph algorithms.

## Source excerpt

As a fun side project to distract me from my abysmal progress on my book, I decided to play around with the math genealogy graph! For those who don't know, since 1996, mathematicians, starting with the labor of Harry Coonce et al, have been managing a database of all mathematicians. More specifically, they've been keeping track of who everyone's thesis advisors and subsequent students were. The result is a directed graph (with a current estimated 200k nodes) that details the scientific lineage of mathematicians.