Academic lineage

Shangchen Zhou

Traced back 38 generations to Al-Shaykh al-Raʾīs Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), through 300 recorded advisors.

One line backeach person advised the one above

  1. —Shangchen Zhou
  2. 1Chen Change Loy
  3. 2Shaogang Gong
  4. 3Michael Brady
  5. 4László Kovács
  6. 5Bernhard Neumann
  7. 6Issai Schur
  8. 7Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
  9. 8Karl Weierstrass
  10. 9Friedrich Julius Richelot
  11. 10Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
  12. 11Georg Wilhelm Hegel
  13. 12Johann Friedrich LeBret
  14. 13Johann Adam Osiander, Jr
  15. 14Christoph Matthäus Pfaff
  16. 15Johann Heinrich Michaelis
  17. 16Hiob Ludolf
  18. 17Constantijn l'Empereur van Oppyck
  19. 18Johannes Drusius
  20. 19Raoul le Chevalier
  21. 20François Vatable
  22. 21Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
  23. 22Johannes Argyropoulos
  24. 23Georgios Gemistos Plethon
  25. 24Demetrios Kydones
  26. 25Nilus Cabasilas
  27. 26Gregory Palamas
  28. 27Theodore Metochites
  29. 28Manuel Bryennius
  30. 29Gregor Chioniades
  31. 30Shams al-Din al-Bukhari
  32. 31Abū Jaʿfar Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī
  33. 32Athīr al‐Dīn ibn ʿUmar ibn al‐Mufaḍḍal al‐Samarqandī al‐Abharī
  34. 33Qutb al-Dīn Ibrāhim inb 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-solāmī al-Māghrībī al-Mīsrī
  35. 34Fakhr al-Dīn Abou Abdūllāh Muḥāmmād ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Hāssān ibn al-Hūsseīn ibn Alī al-Rāzī (Ibn Khaṭīb Rayy)
  36. 35Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Masʿūdī al-Marwazī
  37. 36Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām al-Nīsābūrī
  38. 37Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān al-ʿAdjāmī al-Azerbaïdjānī
  39. 38Al-Shaykh al-Raʾīs Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)

Every recorded advisorby generation

  1. 1

    Chen Change Loy

  2. 2

    Shaogang Gong

  3. 3

    Michael Brady

  4. 4

    László Kovács

  5. 5

    Bernhard Neumann

  6. 6

    Issai Schur, Philip Hall

  7. 7

    Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Karl Pearson, Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs

  8. 8

    Ernst Eduard Kummer, Francis Galton, Karl Weierstrass

  9. 9

    Friedrich Julius Richelot, Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk, William Hopkins

  10. 10

    Adam Sedgwick, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes

  11. 11

    Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, August Boeckh, Carl Gauß (Gauss), Enno Heeren Dirksen, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Georg Wilhelm Hegel, John Dawson, Thomas Jones

  12. 12

    Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut, Christian August Hausen, Edward Waring, Friedrich August Wolf, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Bracken, Johann Friedrich LeBret, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Johann Tobias Meyer, Thomas Postlethwaite

  13. 13

    Christian Gottlob Heyne, Herman Boerhaave, Johann Adam Osiander, Jr, Johann Augustus Eberhard, Johann Elert Bode, Johann Wichmannshausen, John Colson, Stephen Whisson

  14. 14

    Christoph Matthäus Pfaff, Johann August Bach, Johann Georg Büsch, Nicholas Saunderson, Otto Mencke, Sigmund Jakob Baumgarten, Theodorus van de Graeff, Walter Taylor

  15. 15

    Bartholomäus Leonhard Schwendendörffer, Christian Benedict Michaelis, Esdras Edzardus, Heinrich Christian Immanuel Frommann, Isaac Newton, Johann Andreas von Segner, Johann Friedrich Christ, Johann Heinrich Michaelis, Johann Wolfgang Jäger, Robert Smith, Roger Cotes, Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten and 2 more

  16. 16

    August Hermann Francke, Benjamin Pulleyn, Christian Thomasius, Franz (Franciscus Sylvius) de le Boë (Dubois), Georg Erhardt Hamberger, Georg Tobias Schwendendörffer, Hiob Ludolf, Isaac Barrow, Johann Bernard Daniels, Johann Georg Dorsche, Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling, Simon Paul Hilscher and 1 more

  17. 17

    Anton Bernhard Lauterbach, Constantijn l'Empereur van Oppyck, Emmanuel Stupanus, Franz Romanus, Georg Weinrich, Heinrich Hoepfner, Jacob Gool, James Duport, Johann Adolph Wedel, Johann Andreas Schmitz, Johann Benedict Carpzov II., Johann Friedrich Rhetz and 9 more

  18. 18

    Andreae Schnepf, Erhard Schnepff, Evangelista Torricelli, Friedrich von Jena, Georg Wolfgang Wedel, Gottfried Möbius, Gottfried von Jena, Jakob Heerbrand, Johann Friderich, Johannes Drusius, Johannes Neldel, Martin Geier and 9 more

  19. 19

    Andrew Downes, Benedetto Castelli, Christian Taubmann, Felix Platter, George Herbert, Heinrich Cosel, Jakob Weller, Jeremias Reusner, Joachim Camerarius, Sr., Johann David Michaelis, Johannes Kepler, Joseph Justus Scaliger and 9 more

  20. 20

    Adriaan van den Spieghel, Adrien Turnèbe, Albert Schultens, Andreas Rudolf Bodenstein (Karlstadt), Augustin Strauch, Bartholomäus Reusner, Bartholomew Arnoldi, Bartholomew Dodington, Caspar Peucer, Daniel Sennert, François Vatable, Galileo Galilei and 9 more

  21. 21

    Erasmus Reinhold, Georg Joachim von Leuchen Rheticus, Giulio Cesare Casseri, Guidobaldo del Monte, Jacobus Martini, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques Toussain, Jan Jessenius, Johannes (Jean) Winther von Andernach (Gonthier d' Andernach; Guinterius Andruacus), Johannes Braun, Johannes Hommel, Konrad Schlechteler von Alsfeld and 6 more

  22. 22

    Cornelius Martini, Cuthbert Scot, Desiderius Erasmus, Federico Commandino, Frederik Spanheim, Jr, George Hermonymus, Girolamo (Hieronymus Fabricus) Fabrici d'Acquapendente, Guillaume Budé, Jacob (Jacques) Sylvius (Dubois), Jakob Milich, Johannes Argyropoulos, Johannes Coccejus and 6 more

  23. 23

    Albert Clampius, Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Duncan Liddel, Gabriel Falloppio, Gaetano da Thiene, Georg (Collimitus) Tanstetter, Georgios Gemistos Plethon, Giovanni Battista della Monte, Janos Lascaris, Jean Tagault, Johannes Caselius, Johannes Stabius and 1 more

  24. 24

    Antonio Musa Brasavola, Basilios Bessarion, Conrad Celtes (Celtis), Demetrios Chalcocondyles, Demetrios Kydones, Johannes Regiomontanus, John Craig, Luca Pacioli, Nicolo (Leoniceno) da Lonigo, Paul Wittich, Paulus Venetus, Reinhard Bachoff von Echt and 1 more

  25. 25

    Georg von Peuerbach, Johann von Dalberg, Nilus Cabasilas, Philip of Pera, Piero della Francesca, Pierre d'Ailly, Pietro Roccabonella, Rodolphus Agricola, Theodor Gaza, Theodor Zwinger, Sr.

  26. 26

    Bassiano Landi, Battista Guarino, Gregory of Rimini, Gregory Palamas, Johannes Trithemius, Johannes von Gmunden, Leon Battista Alberti, Sigismondo Polcastro, Vittore Trincavelli, Vittorino Ramboldini da Feltre

  27. 27

    Filippo Brunelleschi, Giacomo Della Torre da Forlì, Guarino da Verona, Jacob Wimpheling, Michele Savonarola, Nicodemus of Vatopedi, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Pietro Pomponazzi, Theodore Metochites, William of Ockham

  28. 28

    Bartolomeo Colonna, Giovanni dell’Abacco, Giovanni di Conversino da Ravenna, Iacopo Avogari, Ludwig Dringenberg, Manuel Bryennius, Manuel Chrysoloras

  29. 29

    Antonio dei Mazzinghi, Francesco Petrarch, Georgius Pachymeres, Gregor Chioniades, Thomas à Kempis

  30. 30

    Convenevole da Prato, Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, Florentius Radewyn, Georgius Acropolites, Giovanni Colonna, Paolo dell’Abaco, Shams al-Din al-Bukhari

  31. 31

    Abū Jaʿfar Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī, Duccio di Amadore, Geert (Gerhard Groet) Groote, Nicephorus Blemmydes, Theodorus Exapterigus

  32. 32

    Abū al-Fatḥ Kamāl al-Dīn Mūsá ibn Yūnis ibn Muḥammad ibn Manʿat al-Shāfiʿī, Athīr al‐Dīn ibn ʿUmar ibn al‐Mufaḍḍal al‐Samarqandī al‐Abharī, Demetrios Karykes, Theodoros Prodromos

  33. 33

    Michael Italikos, Qutb al-Dīn Ibrāhim inb 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-solāmī al-Māghrībī al-Mīsrī, Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi, Stephanos Skylitzes

  34. 34

    Fakhr al-Dīn Abou Abdūllāh Muḥāmmād ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Hāssān ibn al-Hūsseīn ibn Alī al-Rāzī (Ibn Khaṭīb Rayy), Theodore of Smyrna

  35. 35

    John Italus, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Masʿūdī al-Marwazī

  36. 36

    Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām al-Nīsābūrī, Michael Psellos

  37. 37

    Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān al-ʿAdjāmī al-Azerbaïdjānī, John Mauropous, John Xiphilinus, Nicetas Byzantius

  38. 38

    Al-Shaykh al-Raʾīs Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)

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