Timeline for Selberg's advisor?
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| Jul 22, 2010 at 8:27 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | Gentlemen, you are arguing about something that is not well-defined (see my comments to the question) and making seemingly plausible, but faulty assumptions. Example 1: My official diploma thesis advisor was not present at my (and another student's) defense. Moreover, he wasn't even our first advisor, who had left the university two years earlier, or even a faculty member at the U! Example 2: John Tate supervised Ph.D. theses of George Bergman and Robert Warfield, Jr at around the same time. There are some comments in print as to how uncomfortable he felt reading their theses. | |
| Jul 22, 2010 at 7:17 | comment | added | Greg Kuperberg | Yeah, okay, but this is what Selberg says: "The second opponent was Skolem, who had struggled with this material, of course. It was not really his field, it is safe to say." As for Skolem's advisor Thue, Wikipedia says this: "His notional thesis advisor [for his 1926 thesis] was Axel Thue, even though Thue had died in 1922." | |
| Jul 22, 2010 at 5:28 | comment | added | KConrad | Although Skolem worked primarily in set theory, he had done work in number theory (Skolem's p-adic method for solving Diophantine equations). See Borevich--Shafarevich's Number Theory. According to his Wikipedia page it looks like this may have been the topic of his thesis (and unlike Selberg he had a definite advisor: Thue). | |
| Jul 22, 2010 at 5:16 | history | answered | Greg Kuperberg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |