Dave Green's PhD/research antecedents (and Erdős number)

Here is a list of my PhD supervisor, their PhD supervisor... their academic advisor (in the days before PhDs)... etc.

• My supervisor: Stephen F. Gull;
• their supervisor: Malcolm S. Longair;
• their supervisor: Martin Ryle;
• their supervisor: John A. Ratcliffe;
• their advisor: Edward V. Appleton;
• their advisor: Ernest Rutherford;
• their advisor: Joseph J. Thomson;
• their advisor: John W. Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh);
• their advisor: Edward J. Routh;
• their advisor: William Hopkins;
• their advisor: Adam Sedgwick;
• their advisor: Thomas Jones;
• their advisor: Thomas Postlethwaite;
• their advisor: Stephen Whisson;
• their advisor: Walter Taylor;
• their advisor: Robert Smith;
• their advisor: Roger Cotes;
• their advisor: Isaac Newton.

Note: the latter (`advisor') links are due to Wikipedia, so trust them as much as you want to. But these are also reported by the Mathematics Genealogy Project, where you can take things back even further. From Isaac Newton to:

• their advisor: Isaac Barrow;
• their advisor: Vincenzo Viviani;
• their advisor: Galileo Galilei;
• their advisor: Ostilio Ricci.
• their advisor: Nicolò Fontana Tartaglia;

For those names in bold above, see here.

My Erdős number is 5 (as according to this American Mathematical Society webform, my PhD supervisor -- who I have co-authored many papers with -- has an Erdős number of 4). I don't have a Bacon number.

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