Mathematicians?

[vivdunstan]

I just posted something in the positive/neutral thing thread that may be of interest to fellow mathematicians!

What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today?

I was alerted to the Mathematics Genealogy Project (https://www.mathgenealogy.org) today, which records detail of many - but not all - mathematics (and some computer science) PhD etc. students and their advisors. My husband isn’t in the database, but his PhD supervisor is. So I stepped back, a generation at a time, to see where we got to. Being a genealogist I couldn’t resist this! From my husband through his supervisor and her supervisor etc. we can reach Isaac Newton. And back from him we can …