Academic Tree

An academic family tree is a diagram that shows the relationships between researchers and their advisors. I find it amazing that many modern researchers can trace their academic lineage to great scientists from the past. I think it’s a great way to pay homage to the people who have come before us. You can find your academic tree here.

You can see my academic tree above. Among other great figures, some of my academic ancestors include:

• Gaston Darboux (1842–1917): a French mathematician renowned for his contributions to differential geometry, particularly the Darboux theorem and the Darboux integral, which significantly advanced the understanding of surfaces and transformations in geometry.

• Simeon-Denis Poisson (1781–1840): a French mathematician and physicist whose work on probability theory, mechanics, and electromagnetism left a lasting legacy, notably through Poisson’s equation and Poisson distribution.

• Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827): a French mathematician and astronomer best known for his pioneering work in celestial mechanics and probability theory, as well as formulating the Laplace equation and Laplace transform.

• Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813): an Italian-born mathematician and physicist who made monumental contributions to calculus, mechanics, and number theory, including the formulation of Lagrangian mechanics and Lagrange multipliers.

• Andre-Marie Ampere (1775–1836): a French physicist and mathematician who founded the science of electrodynamics (now electromagnetism), with his name immortalized in the unit of electric current, the ampere.

• Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850): a French chemist and physicist celebrated for his work on gas laws, chemical analysis, and the discovery of the relationship between gas pressure and temperature, known as Gay-Lussac’s law.