Timeline for What is the shortest Ph.D. thesis? [closed]
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| Apr 19 at 7:55 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | If you award a PHD for this question you will have the best answer. Incidently asking good questions is what matters most ( think Langland's) and should be awarded PHD even without answers. | |
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| Dec 7, 2022 at 13:17 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
Removing the tag (thesis) - as suggested by the moderators: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/10243/conversation/the-tag-thesis and https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/10243/conversation/removal-of-thesis
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| Nov 23, 2022 at 1:26 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @GerryMyerson Thank you; I agree. It appears that many people find this question not just off-topic, but offensive. I still don't understand why. | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 22:34 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | It's one thing to close this question as off-topic. It's quite another to delete it, after all the work that a large number of users have put into it. Please, no more votes-to-delete. | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 14:13 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2011 at 16:01 | history | closed |
Andrés E. Caicedo Tom Leinster Andrew Stacey Mark Meckes Ryan Budney |
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| Feb 9, 2011 at 15:50 | vote | accept | Timothy Chow | ||
| Feb 9, 2011 at 2:51 | comment | added | fherzig | @Dan Ramras: you can download it through mathscinet and it has 36 pages (incl. 1 page each of table of contents and bibliography). | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 2:32 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | How is voting supposed to work? Do we ultimately want the vote order to reflect the page-count order or are we attempting to factor in credibility or what? | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 22:14 | comment | added | Dan Ramras | PEV: For the record, Elkies thesis contains 31 "leaves" so there must be more than 5 pages of mathematics. discovery.lib.harvard.edu/?q=noam%20elkies | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 22:11 | comment | added | Dan Ramras | There should be a way to search all recent theses on mathscinet, since they are now listed there. It's a little unclear to me exactly how that happened; it seems Proquest has provided information to mathscinet. Not sure how far back it goes, though. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 20:33 | answer | added | Felipe Voloch | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 20:18 | comment | added | Andrew D. King | I can think of at least one preeminent mathematician who does not have a Ph.D. at all. I don't think that really falls into the same set of trivia, though. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 20:07 | answer | added | Charles Rezk | timeline score: 54 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 20:05 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | @Peter McNamara: you probably could, but I'm pretty certain that this is not the issue being discussed here. Anyway, most universities have specific formatting standards and would not let you submit it in this form. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 19:50 | comment | added | Peter McNamara | -1. This question is terrible. I'm sure I could reformat my thesis in a silly font size to make it have a ludicrously small number of pages. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 19:16 | comment | added | NebulousReveal | I thought Noam Elkies thesis was the shortest at 5 pages. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 18:05 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 8, 2011 at 17:57 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | @Timothy: lovely question! But the answer so far show that a few more “rules of the game” need clarifying. If a thesis has been republished in eg a “collected works” (as for Gödel), then the original submitted form presumably is definitive, rather than the republished one? And hence, the original language, rather than later translations? This will advantage/disadvantage writers of certain languages; hopefully not too significantly, though. Also, page sizes vary — should this be generally neglected too, except in extreme cases? | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 17:37 | answer | added | J Verma | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 17:21 | answer | added | David Hansen | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 17:15 | answer | added | zhoraster | timeline score: 22 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:46 | answer | added | boumol | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:33 | comment | added | Noah Stein | How would you like to count? Do all the cover pages, table of contents, abstract, etc. count? How about references? Or do you begin with the introduction and only include the content? | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:28 | answer | added | Simon Lyons | timeline score: 24 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:18 | answer | added | Victor Miller | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:51 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Timothy Chow | ||
| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:51 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | All right, I'll make it CW, though personally I'm still not convinced, because if you've actually attempted to track down the answer to this question, as I have, you know that it can take a lot of work to come up with a candidate answer. I'd think that such work should be rewarded with reputation. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:45 | answer | added | Richard Borcherds | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:40 | comment | added | Greg Kuperberg | The only reasonable interpretation of the question is extremely short theses in general, because there is more than one measure of the length of a thesis. Moreover in some cases it's debatable whether a particular document really is a thesis or the full thesis. It realy should be CW. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:35 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:31 | comment | added | Alex B. | I think it really should be CW. It makes no sense to me that the shorter the proposed candidate, the more reputation the proposer will get. It will also lower the temptation for people to post gossipy stuff. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:27 | history | asked | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 2.5 |