Timeline for Famous examples of PhD advisors younger than their student [closed]
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 21:51 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Mar 21, 2015 at 3:52 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | @JoelDavidHamkins: I believe you're right, the research establishment in France (and perhaps in all the E.U.), seems more rigid than in the U.S. or in India. I hope this will change. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 22:08 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Also, it seems to me to be probably true that one is more likely to find a young professor serving as a Ph.D. supervisor in the U.S. than in Europe. (But I recognise, @SébastienPalcoux, that you are not currently in Europe.) | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 14:11 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | I believe that the late-student phenomenon could be less unusual in the U.S. than in Europe. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 14:01 | comment | added | Sebastien Palcoux | @JoelDavidHamkins: Advisors early in life seems more uncommon than students later in life. Anyway, this post is a recreation between two theorems. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 13:50 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Let me add that in the cases with which I am familiar, the advisor/student relation was not fundamentally affected by the difference in age; it was just like normal. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 13:43 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | I think this phenomenon is fairly common. For example, I am younger than one of my PhD students, and my advisor is younger than at least one of his PhD students. It often happens that a person pursues the PhD later in life, after other accomplishments, and in such a case they can easily find themselves with a younger advisor. But I would rather that we should be discussing mathematician's theorems on MO, rather than their ages. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 13:28 | history | edited | Sebastien Palcoux | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 13:19 | history | closed |
Qiaochu Yuan Igor Pak Stefan Waldmann Chris Godsil Eric Wofsey |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 7:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 7:01 | history | reopened |
Sebastien Palcoux Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine Igor Rivin Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen Vivek Shende |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 3:36 | history | edited | Sebastien Palcoux | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 13:20 | history | edited | Sebastien Palcoux | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 13:04 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 12:26 | history | closed |
Peter Crooks Ulrich Pennig Alex Degtyarev Daniel Moskovich Suvrit |
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 12:01 | comment | added | Camilo Sarmiento | This doesn't seem like a research level math question, and is therefore not on-topic for MO. I would vote to close but I can't. | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 11:22 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Mar 19, 2015 at 8:59 | comment | added | user5117 | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Katok appears to be older than her advisor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Zagier. I didn't go through all of Zagier's students, but there could be more examples among the early ones. | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 8:59 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 8:53 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | @ThiKu: But he still has a doctorate, though. | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 8:52 | answer | added | Willie Wong | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 8:49 | comment | added | ThiKu | Does Whitfield Diffie count? He was more than a year older than his advisor Martin Hellman. (Un)fortunately he never finished his degree. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 8:17 | history | asked | Sebastien Palcoux | CC BY-SA 3.0 |