The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database that gives an academic genealogy based on dissertation supervision relations. Namely, a Ph.D. mathematician's "parent" is his/her doctoral advisor. The project grew out of founder Harry B. Coonce's desire to know the name of his advisor's advisor. Coonce was Professor of Mathematics at Minnesota State University, Mankato, at the time of the project's founding, and the project went online there in the fall of 1997. In the fall of 2002, a couple years after Coonce's retirement, Minnesota State University, Mankato, decided that it would no longer support the project. The project relocated at that time to North Dakota State University. Since 2003, the project has also operated under the auspices of the American Mathematical Society, and in 2005 it received a grant from the Clay Mathematics Institute. In computing , a database can be defined as a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer so that a program can consult it to answer queries. ... An academic, or scientific, genealogy, is an attempt to organise a family tree of scientists and scholars according to dissertation supervision relationships. ... This article is about the thesis in dialectics and academia. ... North Dakota State University (NDSU) is a public university in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. It is the second largest school in the eleven campus North Dakota University System. ... The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians. ... The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

On December 21, 2005 the AI Genealogy Project went live. It is a spin off from the Mathematics Genealogy Project, but focusing on artificial intelligence researchers. It was founded by Benjamin Kuipers at The University of Texas at Austin. December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (full official name), often UT or Texas for short, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System, the largest public university system in Texas, established in 1883. ...

External links

• Mathematics Genealogy Project home page
• The Mathematics PhD in the United Kingdom: Notes on its History Contains information/links relevant to the PhD in Britain.