This is pretty tangential, but it’s interesting to me that the examples use Mises, Hayek, and Menger. These are three famous economists that of which Menger is

This is pretty tangential, but it’s interesting to me that the examples use Mises, Hayek, and Menger. These are three famous economists that of which Menger is a shared ancestor in the other two’s academic-advisor-genealogy. In academic advisor genealogy being a direct descendant of one academic advisor just means that you had them as an advisor, thus since an advisor has multiple Ph.D. students It creates a family tree like structure. Anyways, I only learned this, because my Dad is actually an academic advisor descendant of Mises and Menger. Anyways if there is any Ph.D.s lurking here on hacker news in a mathematical field you might be able to find your own advisor genealogy here: https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=200008 https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=200008