Timeline for What is the shortest Ph.D. thesis?
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| Nov 8, 2018 at 8:11 | comment | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | Which Littlewood ? Is it John Edensor Littlewood or Dudley Littlewood ? I expect (but, in fact do not know) that, as J. E. Littlewood was senior wrangler (with a two-year preparation instead of the usual three) he could have been quasi-exempted from Ph. D. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 3:06 | comment | added | tst | (2) is a trivial corollary of Picard's little theorem. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 20:18 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | @David: I too would agree that in general it’s not reasonable to expect people to read meta discussions on questions before answering them. But this question specifically asks us to, and gives good reasons for it. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 17:27 | comment | added | Charles Staats | While I agree with David Speyer in general, I also do not think this should have been posted as an answer to this particular question, given the questioner's emphasis on restricting the scope of the question. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:52 | comment | added | David E Speyer | I don't think it is reasonable to expect people to have read all the meta discussion before posting on a regular thread. This is a sort of fluff question, so it doesn't matter much, but in general I think it should be fine to repost answers from meta, so that the main thread has the most complete record of answers to the question. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 16:12 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Anton Geraschenko | ||
| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:53 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Richard, perhaps you overlooked that Gerry Myerson already gave this example on the meta discussion? | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 15:45 | history | answered | Richard Borcherds | CC BY-SA 2.5 |