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    Re: CN and my PhD thesis
    From: Bruce Cutting
    Date: 2020 Aug 22, 11:34 -0600

    Interesting, but what are you supposed to do with this statement.  Is
    it your composition or the committee's?
    
    And what does a defense of it look like?
    
    Cheers!
    
    Bruce
    
    Quoting "Igor S." :
    
    > PhD candidates in the Netherlands, in addition to dissertation, must
    > prepare a number of concise propositions/statements (in dutch
    > *Stellingen* ) in a form of attachment.Traditionally part of it does
    > not need to be directly related to the main content of dissertation.
    > The idea behind is that a PhD candidate is able to defend these
    > statements in public if he will be asked for (in practice it never
    > happens).Here is the 7-th *stelling* from my PhD thesis (2009):*7.
    > Two things are only whispered when one talks seriously about
    > sailing: celestial navigation and the harshest waters of Cape
    > Horn.*kind regards,Igor
    
    

       
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