Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:05:24 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 15:58:54, Bo Persson wrote: >> Euclid's "Elements" was completely unoriginal. Just a catalog of existing >> ideas. And yet, I think it has value. > >But it wasn't a thesis! :-) I don't really know what requirements for a thesis are. But here is what I think they ought to contain: "Something that furthers knowledge in a way that is valuable and interesting." Most of them don't accomplish that. They are obscure little documents that nobody reads except the advisors and the panel and are generally terribly dry and boring. I don't think I am exaggerating one bit. I suspect that I am one of less than ten people on earth who have read my sister's Master's thesis (English major). Most of the time, they are an extensive and exhaustive waste of time and energy. Documents that come from a university should be something valuable for teaching. IMO-YMMV.
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