4 Nov
2007
4 Nov
'07
1:12 a.m.
Guy asks: << Apologies if this has been asked before. I'm wondering what have been the shortest successfully submitted Ph.D. theses in mathematics.
Urk, mine was pretty short -- just 28 double-spaced typewritten pages. Google claims there's something about this in the Nov. 2003 College Mathematics Journal, which I don't have access to at the moment. (Can someone please get ahold of that and report what it says on the subject?) On the other hand, someone claimed on some discussion board that (presumably William Rowan) Hamilton's Ph.D. thesis was only one page long. --Dan