My academic whakapapa can be traced back to Leibniz, as follows:

Mikhail Katz is a student of

Mikhael Gromov, student of

Vladimir Rokhlin, student of

Abraham Plessner, student of

Ludwig Schlesinger, student of

Leopold Kronecker, student of

Gustave Dirichlet, student of

Jean-Baptiste Fourier, student of

Joseph Lagrange, student of

Leonhard Euler, student of

Johann Bernoulli, student of

Jacob Bernoulli, student of

Nicolas Malbranche, student of

Gottfried Leibniz