Timeline for What is the shortest Ph.D. thesis?
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| Nov 21, 2022 at 8:52 | history | edited | David Roberts♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added doi link to published version; http -> https for existing link
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| Oct 14, 2022 at 10:53 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | 119 typewritten lines! | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 18:44 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | I'm in the reading room now. Rector's thesis comprises a title page, an abstract page, a table of contents page, 7 pages of math, a bibliography page (8 refs.), and a biographical note page. The MIT library record's "9 leaves" exclude the title/abstract/contents, which are not numbered. Except for some trivial changes in wording in the intro, the mathematical part is indeed identical to the 4-page Topology paper, vol. 5 (1966), 343-346. The thesis occupies more space since it's manually typed; not including section titles, the 4 sections are respectively 18, 23, 42, and 36 typewritten lines. | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 18:55 | comment | added | Charles Rezk | Aside from the library copy, there should be a slightly more accessible copy in the MIT Math reading room. (They used to keep copies of theses there, and I assume they still do.) Maybe somebody reading this could wander down the hall and take a look. :) | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 15:56 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Accepted provisionally. Enough people seem instinctively annoyed at this question that it seems likely to be closed soon (despite the fact that I'm asking it on MO in order to prevent its proliferation elsewhere). It doesn't seem likely that a stronger candidate will emerge before then. Ideally I'd like to examine the thesis myself before accepting the answer but I don't feel like purchasing it and it may be a while before my next trip to Boston. | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 15:50 | vote | accept | Timothy Chow | ||
| Feb 8, 2011 at 20:25 | comment | added | Tyler Lawson | Probably not a coincidence. | |
| Feb 8, 2011 at 20:07 | history | answered | Charles Rezk | CC BY-SA 2.5 |