Daniel James (University of Rochester, 1992) was a student of
Emil Wolf (University of Bristol, 1948) who was a student of
Edward Hubert Linfoot (University of Oxford, 1929) who was a student of
Godfrey Harold Hardy (University of Cambridge) who was a student of
Edmund Whittaker (University of Cambridge, 1895) who was a student of
Sir George Darwin (University of Cambridge, 1871) who was a student of
Edward Routh (University of Cambridge, 1857) who was a student of
William Hopkins (University of Cambridge, 1830) who was a student of
Adam Sedgwick (University of Cambridge, 1811) who was a student of
Thomas Jones (University of Cambridge, 1782) who was a student of
Thomas Postlethwaite (University of Cambridge, 1756) who was a student of
Stephen Whisson (University of Cambridge, 1742) who was a student of
Walter Taylor (University of Cambridge, 1723) who was a student of
Robert Smith (University of Cambridge, 1715) who was a student of
Roger Cotes (University of Cambridge, 1706) who was a student of
Sir Isaac Newton (University of Cambridge, 1668) who was a student of
Isaac Barrow (University of Cambridge, 1652) who was a student of
Vincenzo Viviani (Università di Pisa, 1642) who was a student of
Galileo Galilei (Università di Pisa, 1585)
Emil Wolf (University of Bristol, 1948) was a post-doc of
Max Born (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1906) who was a student of
Carl Runge (Universität Berlin, 1880) who was a student of
Ernst Kummer (Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, 1831) who was a student of
Heinrich Scherk (Universität Berlin, 1823) who was a student of
Friedrich Bessel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1810) who was a student of
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Universität Helmstedt, 1799)
(data from: Mathematics Genealogy Project)