OK, genealogy, and academic genealogy at that – perhaps not the most stimulating of topics.
However, thanks to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, and some curiosity, I was able to trace back my academic genealogy from my advisor, to his advisor, to his advisor, etc., all the way back until the records gave out. (Note: I did a quick initial search — I may continue this project in the future as time permits.)
Amazingly, I was able to trace my academic heritage all the way back to 1650, to an academic ancestor named Erhard Weigel, who was a German mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher.
And here is his picture:
Below, starting with Erhard, for each person I state the name and the year of his dissertation, if it is known. A link to the appropriate Wikipedia page is also given, if I could find one. In two cases, for Joseph Liouville and Jacques Hadamard, there are two advisors.
Erhard Weigel, 1650
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Gottfried Liebniz, 1666
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Jacob Bernoulli, 1684
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Johann Bernoulli, 1694
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Leonhard Euler, 1726
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Joseph Lagrange ?
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Simeon Poisson Louis Thenard
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Joseph Liouville, 1835
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Eugene-Charles Catalan, 1841
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Charles Hermite ?
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Jules Tannery C. Emile Picard, 1877
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Jacques Hadamard, 1892
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Szolem Mandelbrojt, 1923
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Hugh Daniel Brunk, 1944
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Timothy Robertson, 1966
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Edward Wegman, 1968
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Carey Priebe, 1993 (and David Marchette, 1996)
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Kendall Giles, 2007
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