This scarcely known researcher Sigusmondo Polcastro at the top of the list seemed a bit strange. 105,277 descendents, why so many? I looked him up and clicked t

This scarcely known researcher Sigusmondo Polcastro at the top of the list seemed a bit strange. 105,277 descendents, why so many? I looked him up and clicked through his geneaology. Turns out if follow through a few generations, you find Carl Friedrich Gauss, with 74930, or about 75% of Mr. Polcastro's family, and the first name I recognized along that tree. After Gauss you find a tree of mathemeticians like Bessel, Klein, Hilbert. It seems a bit strange not to mention him.