[seqfan] Re: Two math theses in comparison

[Olivier Gerard]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 23:46, Richard Mathar <mathar at strw.leidenuniv.nl>wrote:

>
> I stumbled across two recent math PhD theses,
> http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/mioara.joldes/these/theseJoldes_22.09.2011.pdf
> and
> http://www.normalesup.org/~mezzarobba/these/these-mezzarobba.pdf
> and I am wondering: is it quite usual in Mathematics that the content of
> two
> theses (although written in different languages) has such a massive
> overlap?
>
>
These theses have been submitted in the same country, with one common
member in the examiners, and one month apart...