Jonny Evans
                                                   |
                                                   |
                                               Ivan Smith
                                                   |
                                                   |
                                            Simon Donaldson
                                                   |
                             ----------------------*----------------------
                             |                                            |
                       Michael Atiyah----------------------------->Nigel Hitchin
                             |                                            |
                             |                                            |
                       William Hodge                                 Brian Steer
                             |                                            |
                             |                                            *------------------
     George Darwin--->Edmund Whittaker                                    |                 |
                             |                                  J H C Whitehead------->Ioan James
                             |                                            |
                       Andrew Forsyth                                     |
                             |                                     Oswald Veblen
                             |                                            |
                       Arthur Cayley                                      |
                             |                                       E H Moore
                             |                                            |
                      William Hopkins                                     |
                             |                                       H A Newton
                             |                                            |
                       Adam Sedgewick                                     |
                             |                                     Michel Chasles
                    ---------*---------                                   |
                    |                 |                                   |
John Cranke--->Thomas Jones       John Dawson<---Henry Bracken    Simeon Denis Poisson
                    |                 |                                   |
                    |                 |                          ---------*---------
          Thomas Postlethwaite   Edward Waring                   |                 |       
                    |                                    Joseph Lagrange   Pierre-Simon Laplace
                    |                                            |                 |
             Stephen Whisson                                     |                 |
                    |                                     Leonhard Euler   Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
                    |                                            |
              Walter Taylor                                      |
                    |                                     Johann Bernoulli
                    |                                            |
              Robert Smith                                       |
                    |                                   Jacob Bernoulli
                    |                                            |
               Roger Cotes                                       |
                    |                                  Nicolas Malebranche
                    |                                            |
               Isaac Newton                          Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz