Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

Re:Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician by jamessb on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:19PM (#16863167)

If you are seeking the Ph.D. Degree under the normal regulations, you are required to have "kept three terms at least by residence" (i.e. have lived within three miles of Great St. Mary's Church for a year) [1]. There is also a minimum time of 9 terms (ie. 3 years) that must be spent as a Graudate Student [2].

The alternative 'special regulations' apply only to graduates of the Cambridge University, or graduates of another university who have been admitted "to some office in the University or to a Headship or a Fellowship of a College" [3].

> d) ... that's it; there is no part d)

Well, the most likely outcome of the viva is a pass with minor corrections, so there typically is a part d - "make the corrections requested by the examiners and re-submit".

[1]: https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2017/chapter02-section9....

[2]: https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2017/chapter07-section13...

[3]: https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/2017/chapter07-section13...

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Re:Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician by adw on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:34PM (#16863275)

I'd forgotten about the Great St. Mary's deal. :-) (I spent my PhD firstly in Jesus College and then living out in a couple of places in Castle and Abbey, so I'm glad in retrospect that I didn't breach those rules...)

I think the spirit of what I wrote is broadly accurate. d) was definitely a rhetorical indulgence!

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