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Table 1 Top individuals by a-index, with the a-index of at least 10 and their corresponding adjusted a-index

From: Network-based indices of individual and collective advising impacts in mathematics

a-index

Name

Grad. year

Country of Ph.D.

Adjusted a-index

12

Heinz Hopf

1925

Germany

11

12

Jacques-Louis Lions

1954

France

11

12

Mark Aleksandrovich Krasnoselskii

1948

Ukraine

12

12

Erhard Schmidt

1905

Germany

10

11

Andrei Nikolayevich Kolmogorov

1925

Russia

10

11

C. Felix (Christian) Klein

1868

Germany

10

11

Heinrich Adolph Behnke

1923

Germany

9

11

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass

1841

Germany

9

11

John Torrence Tate, Jr.

1950

United States

11

11

Ernst Eduard Kummer

1831

Germany

10

11

Reinhold Baer

1927

Germany

8

11

Salomon Bochner

1921

Germany

11

11

David Hilbert

1885

Germany

10

10

Lothar Collatz

1935

Germany

9

10

Günter Hotz

1958

Germany

10

10

Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov

1927

Russia

10

10

Edmund Hlawka

1938

Austria

9

10

Phillip Augustus Griffiths

1962

United States

9

10

Michael Francis Atiyah

1955

United Kingdom

9

10

Haim Brezis

1972

France

10

10

Thomas Kailath

1961

United States

10

10

R. L. (Robert Lee) Moore

1905

United States

10

10

Alan Victor Oppenheim

1964

United States

10

10

Shiing-Shen Chern

1936

Germany

10

10

Elias M. Stein

1955

United States

10

10

Richard Courant

1910

Germany

9

10

Hellmuth Kneser

1921

Germany

9

10

Emil Artin

1921

Germany

10

10

Lipman Bers

1938

Czech Republic

9

10

Issai Schur

1901

Germany

8

10

Roger Meyer Temam

1967

France

9

10

John Wilder Tukey

1939

United States

9

10

Philip Hall

1926

United Kingdom

10

10

Beno Eckmann

1942

Switzerland

9

10

Oscar Ascher Zariski

1925

Italy

10