advisor of

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Dr. jur. Universität Altdorf 1666
(2 students and 147436 descendants)
Dissertation: Disputatio Inauguralis De Casibus Perplexis In Jure

      advisor of

Jacob Bernoulli
(3 students and 136397 descendants)

      advisor of

Johann Bernoulli
Ph.D.
(5 students and 136394 descendants)

      advisor of

Leonhard Euler
Ph.D. Universität Basel 1726
(6 students and 136182 descendants)

      advisor of

Joseph Louis Lagrange
(3 students and 131094 descendants.)

      advisor of

Simeon Denis Poisson
(4 students and 131091 descendants)

      advisor of

Michel Chasles
Ph.D. Icole Polytechnique 1814
(3 students and 53105 descendants)

      advisor of

H. A. (Hubert Anson) Newton
B.S. Yale University 1850
(3 students and 28178 descendants)

      advisor of

E. H. (Eliakim Hastings) Moore
Ph.D. Yale University 1885
(31 students and 28108 descendants)
Dissertation: Extensions of Certain Theorems of Clifford
and Cayley in the Geometry of n Dimensions

      advisor of

Oswald Veblen
Ph.D. University of Chicago 1903
(16 students and 15171 descendants)
Dissertation: A System of Axioms for Geometry

      advisor of (E. H. Moore was also R. L. Moore's advisor)

R. L. (Robert Lee) Moore
Ph.D. University of Chicago 1905
(50 students and 4423 descendants)
Dissertation: Sets of Metrical Hypotheses for Geometry

      advisor of

Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 1952
(9 students and 21 descendants)
Dissertation: Concerning Webs in the Plane

      advisor of

Neal Richard Wagner
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1970
Dissertation: Global properties of the space of retractions
of the two-sphere and the annulus