/mathgen

A script for crawling the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Primary LanguagePython

mathgen

A simple Python script for crawling the Mathematics Genealogy Project:

http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/

Invoke it with an id of a mathematician as an argument and it will print out the complete genealogy tree of the desired mathematician.

Example: mathgen.py 108295

Output: Pierre-Simon Laplace (a student of Jean Le Rond d'Alembert)