23 Oct
2003
23 Oct
'03
3:58 p.m.
My 1951 Princeton PhD thesis was 23 pages including a 5 page appendix with an auxiliary result. I decided to eliminate the appendix if it make the thesis a record for shortness. Alas for me, there was a 6 page Princeton mathematics PhD thesis, so I included the appendix. I think the 6 page thesis was in algebra.