On page 376 it says "Shortest PhD thesis: Dan Asimov's "Flow Manifolds," UC Berkeley 1972, was 28 pages long. This appears in a list, "Records" which lists six records in math, such as a 48-year delay from publication of a paper to a correction by the author, and the shortest book title, "A=B." Steve Gray Dan Asimov wrote:

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

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