- My Erdos number is at most 4 (via Vijay S. Pande -> Sergio Bacallado -> Persi W. Diaconis -> Paul Erdos).
- My academic genealogy: Jan Lipfert (2008, Stanford) -> Sebastian Doniach (1958, Liverpool) -> Herbert Fröhlich (1930, München) -> Arnold J.W. Sommerfeld (Königsberg, 1891) -> C.L. Ferdinand Lindemann (1873, Erlangen-Nürnberg) -> C. Felix Klein (1868, Bonn). Here the line branches,
- into a German line: Julius Plücker (1823, Marburg) -> Christian Ludwig Gerling (1812, Göttingen) -> Carl Friedrich Gauß (1799, Helmstedt) -> Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1786, Göttingen) -> Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1739, Leipzig) -> Christian August Hausen (1713, Halle-Wittenberg) -> Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (1685, Leipzig) -> Otto Mencke (1665, Leipzig) -> Jakob Thomasius (1643, Leipzig) -> Friedrich Leibniz (unkown)
- and a German/French/Swiss line: Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (1853, Berlin) -> Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet (1827, Bonn) -> Simeon Denis Poisson (1800, École Polytechnique) & Joseph Fourier (École Polytechnique) -> Joseph Louis Lagrange ~> Leonard Euler (1726, Basel) -> Johann Bernoulli (1690, Basel) -> Jacob Bernoulli (1676, Basel) -> Peter Werenfels (1649, Basel) -> Theodor Zwinger, Jr. (1630, Basel) -> Sebastian Beck (1610, Basel) -> Johann Jacob Grynaeus (1564, Tübingen) -> Jacob Andreae (1553, Tübingen)