Academic grandfolks

Trace one's academic genealogy by crawling a dataset of academic advisors and students. It fetches data from j2kun/math-genealogy-scraper and recursively finds all academic ancestors for the specified individuals.

Features

• Fetches academic genealogy data from a public dataset.
• Traces academic ancestors for given starting individuals.
• Goes back many generations (configurable, defaults to 40).
• Outputs a sorted list of ancestors with their generational distance.

Usage

1. Install requirements
   This script requires Python 3 and the requests library.
   Install dependencies with:

   pip install requests

2. Configure ancestors
   Edit the myancestors.py file to set starting ancestor IDs in the my_ancestors dictionary.
   You can find someone's ID by searching them on the Mathematics Genealogy Project website.

3. Run the script
   Execute the script with:

   python myancestors.py

Example Output

Guido Sciavicco (1)
Angelo Montanari (2)
Alberto Policriti (2)
...

Data Source

This project uses data from the Mathematics Genealogy Project website, scraped and provided in JSON format by j2kun/math-genealogy-scraper.