math-genealogy-graph

Generate a DOT file containing a mathematician's genealogy using data from the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Example

Carl Friedrich Gauß has Mathematics Genealogy Project identifier 18231. You can verify this by searching for him on their website (see https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=18231). To produce his graph, run the following:

./math-genealogy-graph.py 18231 > graph.dot

You can feed the resulting file to Graphviz to produce an image like the one below. If you do not have Graphviz installed on your machine, you can instead copy the contents of graph.dot to a tool like Graphviz Online and have them render it for you.