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Search for mathematician in Mathematics Genealogy Project

Source: R/search_id.R
search_id.Rd

Perform an online search using information about an individual mathematician to find their ID in the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Usage

search_id(
  family = NULL,
  given = NULL,
  middle = NULL,
  university = NULL,
  year = NULL,
  thesis_keyword = NULL,
  country = NULL,
  discipline = NULL
)

Arguments

family

a character(1) string with the family names.

given

a character(1) string with the given names.

middle

a character(1) string with the collapsed middle name(s).

university

a character(1) string with the University at which PhD studied.

year

a character(1) string or integer(1) with the year of completion.

thesis_keyword

a character(1) string with keyword(s) in the PhD thesis title.

country

a character(1) string with the country of study.

discipline

an integer(1) with the mathematical sub-discipline code.

Value

Data frame containing all matches against the provided search terms, with columns:

id

Mathematician ID (as required by get_genealogy());

name

The full name (surname first) of the mathematician;

university

The institution at which PhD was obtained;

year

The year PhD was completed.

Details

Any one or more of the listed arguments can be provided. This will trigger an online search against the live Mathematics Genealogy Project database, so please be considerate and do not spam queries. All the information returned by a standard search on the website is gathered into a data frame and returned, enabling programmatic access to the data.

If you cannot find the individual you are looking for, it could be that they are not in the Mathematics Genealogy Project database. New data can be submitted by following the instructions in the "How to submit updates" section at https://mathgenealogy.org/submit.php.

References

Jackson, A. (2007). “A Labor of Love: The Mathematics Genealogy Project”, Notices of the AMS, 54(8), 1002-1003. https://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070801002p.pdf

Mulcahy, C. (2017). “The Mathematics Genealogy Project Comes of Age at Twenty-one”, Notices of the AMS, 64(5), 466-470. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201705/rnoti-p466.pdf

Examples

# Search for the package author
search_id("Aslett", "Louis")
#>       id          name              university year
#> 1 171971 Aslett, Louis Trinity College, Dublin 2012

# You may find it easier to directly use the https://mathgenealogy.org/
# website, and extract the "id" from the URL on the page for the mathematician
# of interest.