Re: Why some mathematical "ancestry" in U.S. trace back to Germany?

In article <BLOCKSPAMfishfry-D5A0FC.20254809012007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
fishfry <BLOCKSPAMfishfry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1168399496.794491.225390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Gvnaena Pura" <tianran.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Recently I have been searching for mathematical ancestries of all
mathematicians that I person know on the Mathematics Genealogy website
(which tells you who's whose doctoral adviser). These mathematicians
that I searched for are mostly in U.S., but it seems trace back several
generation (in student-adviser sense) it always end up in Germany.

Is there any reason for this? Thanks!

Germans who came to U.S. in the 1930's & 1940's when things got bad
politically over there? That's where the U.S. got our space program.

It goes much farther back than that. Before 1876, there
was no doctoral program in the US, and it really did not
get going until the 1890s. American mathematicians went
mostly to England, France, or Germany to get their degrees,
with Germany having the largest numbers, and imported foreign
mathematicians for American programs even back then.
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