Paul Clapham wrote:Mine was about 50 pages. That was small compared to most theses of that period (mid-1970s), at least that was my impression when I was in the stacks of the university library. But Don Knuth's was even smaller than mine.
Paul Clapham wrote: Knuth and I both wrote short theses which were in obscure and inconsequential areas of mathematics.
David O'Meara wrote:Then you still owe us four pages
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Pat Farrell wrote:Djikstra's paper on semaphores was under one page, as was C.A.Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes.
Mike Simmons wrote:This quote intrigued me, as I'd be very interested to see any one-page work that was deemed worthy of a PhD.
C. A. Hoare's "Communicating Sequential Processes"
So: are there actually any one-page PhD theses? Or one-page significant papers?
Pat Farrell wrote:Djikstra's paper on semaphores was under one page, as was C.A.Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes.
Jesper Young wrote:
Pat Farrell wrote:Djikstra's paper on semaphores was under one page, as was C.A.Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes.
His name is Dijkstra, not Djikstra.
Do you his supervisor read everything? =)John Smith wrote:This one is 2143 pages long.
Mike Simmons wrote:To be fair, he spelled it "Djikstra" twice, "Dijksta" once, and correctly, not at all.
Pat Farrell wrote:
Most of Math is obscure and inconsequential to outsiders.Paul Clapham wrote: Knuth and I both wrote short theses which were in obscure and inconsequential areas of mathematics.
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