Did Mr. Newton/Einstein ever take on students?

[kramer733]

If they did, could we track them and see if they further made more students and those people made more students and etc.. (if somebody has a word for what I'm trying to say, please help me)

 

[Office_Shredder]

There's a website that let's you track the genealogy of student-advisor relationship (some going back hundreds of years) for mathematics

http://www.genealogy.ams.org/

Einstein is on the site for example

 

[Blenton]

Thats very interesting to see the path of euler - lagrange - Fourier - dirichlet