Statistics

338,532 records; 4,612 institution names; 138 countries and territories; 63 subject labels.

Dissertations over time

1900–2026

190019251950197520002026

Records with a year in this range. Recent years are incomplete; this chart measures database coverage as well as dissertation activity.

Direct students, not total descendants

Mathematician	Institution	Students
C.-C. Jay Kuo	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	181
Egbert Havinga	Universiteit Utrecht	146
Pekka Neittaanmäki	Jyväskylän yliopisto	133
Roger Meyer Temam	Université de Paris	129
Ramalingam Chellappa	Purdue University	127
Shlomo Noach (Stephen Ram) Sawilowsky	University of South Florida	111
Andrew Bernard Whinston	Carnegie Mellon University	107
Paul Scholten	Universiteit van Amsterdam	105
Dimitris John Bertsimas	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	104
Willi Jäger	Not recorded	101
Ronold Wyeth Percival King	University of Wisconsin-Madison	100
Alexander Vasil'evich Mikhalëv	Lomonosov Moscow State University	99
Johan Pieter Wibaut	Universiteit van Amsterdam	97
Leonard Salomon Ornstein	Not recorded	95
Kurt Mehlhorn	Cornell University	94
Bart De Moor	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	93
Erol Gelenbe	Not recorded	93
Rutger Anthony van Santen	Universiteit Leiden	91
Ludwig Prandtl	Not recorded	89
Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolsky	Kiev State University	88

15 largest in this snapshot