{"title":"How did dennis ritchie produce his PhD thesis?: a typographical mystery","authors":"D. Brailsford, B. Kernighan, Williamson Ritchie","doi":"10.1145/3558100.3563839","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and, with Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the Unix operating system, completed his Harvard PhD thesis on recursive function theory in early 1968. But for unknown reasons, he never officially received his degree, and the thesis itself disappeared for nearly 50 years. This strange set of circumstances raises at least three broad questions: • What was the technical contribution of the thesis? • Why wasn't the degree granted? • How was the thesis prepared? This paper investigates the third question: how was a long and typographically complicated mathematical thesis produced at a very early stage in the history of computerized document preparation?","PeriodicalId":146244,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3558100.3563839","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and, with Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the Unix operating system, completed his Harvard PhD thesis on recursive function theory in early 1968. But for unknown reasons, he never officially received his degree, and the thesis itself disappeared for nearly 50 years. This strange set of circumstances raises at least three broad questions: • What was the technical contribution of the thesis? • Why wasn't the degree granted? • How was the thesis prepared? This paper investigates the third question: how was a long and typographically complicated mathematical thesis produced at a very early stage in the history of computerized document preparation?
Dennis Ritchie, C语言的创造者，和Ken Thompson, Unix操作系统的共同创造者，在1968年初完成了他关于递归函数理论的哈佛博士论文。但由于未知的原因，他从未正式获得学位，论文本身也消失了近50年。这种奇怪的情况至少提出了三个广泛的问题:•论文的技术贡献是什么?为什么没有授予学位?•论文是如何准备的?本文研究了第三个问题:在计算机文档准备历史的早期阶段，一篇冗长而排版复杂的数学论文是如何产生的?
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