My academic lineage

Academic Lineage of
Timothy L. Urban
Nicolò Fontana Tartaglia
Ostilio Ricci
This chart illustrates my advisor/
student “family tree” (so I’m at
the bottom); for example, Galileo
was a student of Ostilio Ricci
and was an advisor for Benedetto
Castelli and Vincenzo Viviani.
Università di Brescia
Galileo Galilei
Università di Pisa 1585
Benedetto Castelli
Università di Padova 1610
Evangelista Torricelli
Università di Roma La Sapienza
Marin Mersenne
M.A. Paris IV-Sorbonne 1611
I have highlighted a few of my
particularly notable academic
ancestors; click on the person’s
name for additional information.
Information acquired from the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
http://www.genealogy.ams.org,
as of 1 January 2016.
Vincenzo Viviani
Gilles Personne de Roberval
Università di Pisa 1642
Isaac Barrow
Benjamin Pulleyn
M.A. Cambridge 1652
Isaac Newton
M.A. Cambridge 1668
Roger Cotes
M.A. Cambridge 1706
Robert Smith
M.A. Cambridge 1715
Walter Taylor
M.A. Cambridge 1723
Edward Waring
Stephen Whisson
B.A. Cambridge 1760
M.A. Cambridge 1742
Henry Bracken
John Dawson
Thomas Postlethwaite
John Cranke
M.A. Cambridge 1756
M.A. Cambridge 1774
Thomas Jones
M.A. Cambridge 1782
Adam Sedgwick
M.A. Cambridge 1811
William Hopkins
M.A. Cambridge 1830
Isaac Todhunter
Arthur Cayley
Sir Francis Galton
M.A. Cambridge 1848
Ph.D. Universiteit Leiden 1864
Ph.D. Univ. College Dublin 1865
D.Sc. Oxford 1875
M.A. Cambridge 1847
Edward John Routh
M.A. Cambridge 1857
George Howard Darwin
Andrew Russell Forsyth
M.A. Cambridge 1871
Ph.D. Cambridge 1881
Edmund Taylor Whittaker
M.A. Cambridge 1895
F. J. M. Stratton
Sir James Hopwood Jeans
Ph.D.
Ph.D. Cambridge
Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Karl Pearson
D.Sc. Cambridge 1926
Cambridge 1879
J. O. Irwin
D.Sc. Cambridge 1937
Oscar Kempthorne
M.S. Cambridge 1943
Sc.D. (honorary) Cambridge 1960
Franklin Arne Graybill
Ph.D. Iowa State 1952
Albert William Wortham
Ph.D. Oklahoma State 1954
Revenor Cornelius Baker
Ph.D. Texas A&M 1971
Timothy L. Urban
Ph.D. Texas-Arlington 1987