Mathematics Genealogy Project

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The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database that gives an academic genealogy based on dissertation supervision relations. Namely, a Ph.D. or D.Sc. mathematician's "parent" is his/her doctoral advisor. The project grew out of founder Harry B. Coonce's desire to know the name of his advisor's advisor. Coonce was Professor of Mathematics at Minnesota State University, Mankato, at the time of the project's founding, and the project went online there in the fall of 1997. In the fall of 2002, a couple years after Coonce's retirement, Minnesota State University, Mankato, decided that it would no longer support the project. The project relocated at that time to North Dakota State University. Since 2003, the project has also operated under the auspices of the American Mathematical Society, and in 2005 it received a grant from the Clay Mathematics Institute.