Re:Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site Aft...
by aardvark291 on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:29PM
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His thesis is from 1966, an era in which (1) it is likely that he typed it on a typewriter, and (2) he was still almost completely able-bodied.
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Re:Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site Aft...
by Sharlin on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @06:10AM
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Not only did he type it with a typewriter, all the math notation in the thesis is hand-written! There was no math typesetting available in 1966 outside major printing houses. (Or, I guess, any reasonable priced option for getting your PhD thesis properly typeset and printed at all, math or not.)