If you have pursued a higher degree in mathematical sciences, then perhaps you already know, or otherwise will be flabbergasted to know (using the site Mathematics Genealogy Project) that your academic ancestry may reveal the presence of some great mathematicians and scientists who literally established many fundamentals of mathematics and sciences. It may happen, as it does in my own case, that your presence in such a lineage may seem a bit strange in case the contribution is nominal or at least not as great as your ancestors. But, if you put that aside, the fun and pride can be immense. Erik Brinkman created a great way to visualize the genealogy graph scraping the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

• Nicolaus (Mikołaj Kopernik) Copernicus
  (Juris utriusque Doctor Università di Bologna and few other universities 1499)
  Copernicus challenged the traditional beliefs with his theories and his contributions influenced many great thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and Newton.
  • Georg Rheticus
    (Magister artium M.-L.- Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1535)
    • Moritz Steinmetz
      (Magister artium, Medicinae Dr. Universität Leipzig 1550, 1567)
      • Christoph Meurer
        (Magister artium Universität Leipzig 1582)
        • Philipp Müller
          (Magister artium Universität Leipzig 1604)
          • Erhard Weigel
            (Ph.D. Leipzig 1650)
            • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
              (Dr. phil. Universität Leipzig 1666)
              Co-supervised by Christiaan Huygens making Leibniz a descendent of Marin Mersenne, Willebrord Snell, and Erasmus Reinhold among others.
              (Magister der Philosophie Universität Leipzig 1643)
              • Nicolas Malebranche
                (1672)
                • Jacob Bernoulli
                  (Theol. Dr. Universität Basel 1676)
                  • Johann Bernoulli
                    (Medicinae Dr. Universität Basel 1694)
                    Jacob and Johann were brothers who frequently collaborated, competed, and disputed. Johann defended Leibniz in the calculus dispute with Isaac Newton.
                    • Leonhard Euler
                      (Ph.D. Universität Basel 1726)
                      Euler is rightfully regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians in history, and certainly the greatest in his century.
                      • Joseph Lagrange
                        (B. A. Università di Torino 1754)
                        Intellectual heritage to Euler
                        • Siméon Denis Poisson
                          (Ph. D. École Poly. 1800)
                          Co-supervised by Pierre-Simon Laplace, M. A. (1769)
                          • Michel Chasles
                            (Ph. D. École Poly. 1814)
                            • Hubert Anson Newton
                              (B. A. Yale University 1850)
                              • Eliakim Hastings Moore
                                (Ph. D. Yale University 1885)
                                • Leonard Dickson
                                  (Ph. D. The University of Chicago 1896)
                                  • Cyrus MacDuffe
                                    (Ph. D. The University of Chicago 1921)
                                    • Herbert Ryser
                                      (Ph. D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1948)
                                      • Clement Lam
                                        (Ph. D. California Institute of Technology 1974)
                                        • Tanbir Ahmed
                                          (Ph. D. Concordia University 2013)
                        • Jean-Baptiste Fourier
                          Became a faculty at École Poly. in 1795
                          • Gustav Dirichlet, Honorary
                            (R. F.-W. Universität Bonn 1827)
                            Co-supervised by Siméon Denis Poisson
                            • Rudolf Lipschitz
                              (Dr. phil. Universität Berlin 1853)
                              Co-supervised by Martin Ohm
                              • Christian Felix Klein
                                (Dr. phil. R. F.-W. Universität Bonn 1868)
                                Co-supervised by Julius Plücker and that makes him an academic great-grandchild of Carl Friedrich Gauß
                                • Ferdinand von Lindemann
                                  (Dr. phil. F.-A. Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1873)
                                  • David Hilbert
                                    (Ph.D. Universität Königsberg 1885)
      • • Sethus Calvisius
          (M.A. Universität Leipzig 1582)
          • Erasmus Schmidt
            (M.A. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1592)
            • Nicolaus Zapf
              (M.A. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 1622)
              • Aegidius Strauch
                (M.A. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1633)
                • Michael d. J. Walther
                  (M.A. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1656)
                  • Johann Pasch
                    (M.A. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1683)
                    • Johann Planner
                      (M.A. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1686)
                      • Christian Hausen
                        (Dr. phil. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 1713)
                        • Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
                          (Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1739)
                          • Johann Tobias Mayer
                            (Dr. phil. G.-A.-U. Göttingen 1773)
                            • Enno Heeren Dirksen
                              (Ph.D. G.-A.-U. Göttingen 1820)
                              • Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
                                (Ph.D. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1825)
                                • Otto Hesse
                                  (Dr. phil. Universität Königsberg 1840)
                                  • Carl Newmann
                                    (Dr. phil. Universität Königsberg 1856)
                                    • William Story
                                      (Ph.D. Universität Leipzig 1875)
                                      • Shaun Wylie
                                        (Ph.D. Princeton University 1937)
                                        • Crispin St. John Alvah Nash-Williams
                                          (Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1959)
                                          • Vašek Chvátal
                                            (Ph.D. University of Waterloo 1970)
                                            • Tanbir Ahmed
                                              (M. Sc. Concordia University 2009)