This might be a silly question but why are theses so long (200+ pages)? Someone just told me that they finished their 213 pages-long bachelor’s thesis, but I‘m confused about who the audience would be. Who would spend so much time reading a 213 thesis of a bachelor student? Do people actually read them? What is the purpose of some theses being so long. Also, on a Masters level, does the long length not make important information inaccessible, because it‘s buried deep down in those hundreds of pages?
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Depending on the area of study, it can require 200+ pages to make the argument. There are mathematical proofs that extend for thousands of pages, and that can be without even including background results necessary for validating them.
Regarding important information, it’s almost always explicitly summarized at the beginning of the thesis. “In this paper I will lay out…” etc. – there’s not going to be a hundred pages of formulas, then “and that’s how general relativity is completely disproven,” and then a hundred more pages.
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