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[bombcar]

We generalize the notion of flat chains with arbitrary coefficient groups to Banach spaces and prove a sequential compactness result. We also remove the restriction that a flat chain have finite mass in order for its support to exist.

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This looks like a normal PhD thesis; I suspect it's actually deeper than that. Look! Chains! Supports!

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

We generalize the notion of flat chains with arbitrary coefficient groups to Banach spaces and prove a sequential compactness result. We also remove the restriction that a flat chain have finite mass in order for its support to exist.

PDF

This looks like a normal PhD thesis; I suspect it's actually deeper than that. Look! Chains! Supports!

I approve of your shenanigans, but I do not understand the math going on here, laymens terms for the other people here who didnt learn fancy math.

[Mattasmack]

What?  Is that the whole thing?  26 pages?

Oh I'm envious! I'm working on my (mechanical engineering) thesis ... 162 pages and counting.  Probably will end up around 200.  I hate hate hate writing!

[PsyberianHusky]

I wish I understood what was going on here

[cowofdoom78963]

Oh man I cant believe it. To think that something like this could happen!

[Ampersand]

It's just the extract. I think I posted it last year.

[inteuniso]

You still have to prove theorems in theses? Damnit. I'm definitely not going to be majoring in math. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure computer science requires some sort of advanced math, so I continue on to advanced calculus!

Also, What the heck are k-chains? Banach spaces?

[Mattasmack]

It's just the extract. I think I posted it last year.

Hmm.  Then perhaps this is the whole thing: http://math.stanford.edu/theses/tarn_thesis.pdf
1.5-line spacing and formatting and front matter bumps it up to 50 pages.
(Heh, he mentions the B12 forum in his acknowledgements.)

I know math majors have to do more deep thinking, but I'm still jealous of the shorter theses.

[piecewise]

It's just the extract. I think I posted it last year.

Hmm.  Then perhaps this is the whole thing: http://math.stanford.edu/theses/tarn_thesis.pdf
1.5-line spacing and formatting and front matter bumps it up to 50 pages.
(Heh, he mentions the B12 forum in his acknowledgements.)

I know math majors have to do more deep thinking, but I'm still jealous of the shorter theses.

I don't know if I would call it "deep thinking". The connotation of deep thinking usually implies some sort of introspective or philosophical text, rather then mathematics. Perhaps "quantitative reasoning"  or "Analytical thought"?  Not sure if those would work particularly well...But anyways. Mathematics are the human representation of certain universal truths and laws, much like logic. Mathematicians, by extension, are not "creating" anything, but just figuring out how it all fits together; toying with the tinkertoys of the universal forces till the figure out how they fit together. Conversely Philosophers and the like are not truly interested in how or why the pieces fit, but more in what their purpose is and what our purpose in relationship to them is. As such "deep thinking" would usually connote a more nebulous guess which is incapable of proof or disproof, while mathematic theorizing is pretty much the exact opposite.


Least that how I see it...

[Banana]

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[Vince]

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

What.

[Demonic Spoon]

http://math.stanford.edu/theses/tarn_thesis.pdf

In the acknowledgements, end of second paragraph:

I was surrounded by toads in the mountains. It was fantastic.

/mind blown

[Petr Ga]

so, this is that "end month project"?
but it is 2005

[Dasleah]

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

What.

...you honestly didn't know that he's got a PhD in Mathematics?

[Vince]

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

What.

...you honestly didn't know that he's got a PhD in Mathematics?

I knew that. What I didn't knew was that the Ph in PhD stands for philosophy.
It's a bit different in Germany, he would be doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.) here.