search_id {maths.genealogy} | R Documentation |
Search for mathematician in Mathematics Genealogy Project
Description
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 |
given |
a |
middle |
a |
university |
a |
year |
a |
thesis_keyword |
a |
country |
a |
discipline |
an |
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.
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.
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
# Don't test these as rely on internet resources that can be temporarily
# unavailable.
# Search for the package author
search_id("Aslett", "Louis")
# 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.