PhD thesis

This repository is the git repository of my PhD thesis. It is quite massive.

The main thesis document is a single Org file, thesis.org. That might seem insane, and it is on some level, but I prefer to work on large files relying on quick search to jump around in a file, than having to deal with many individual files and relying on grepping through all files to find a specific section. Personal preference and all that. Although I have to admin that the thesis in the end did stretch even my sanity there, at a nice ~3.1 MB in size and more than 50k lines. Well, you do what you gotta do.

The advantage of a single Org file is super convenient exporting of the file to both LaTeX and HTML targets (although to be fair, the HTML target needs some postprocessing, because guess what, browsers don’t like HTML pages of more than 3 MB in size 🙀). Yeah, unfortunately that means the Org renderer of Github cannot display the Org document. You’ll have to clone the repo or look at the raw file here.

You can view the companion page to the thesis at:

https://phd.vindaar.de

The official publication of the thesis is:

https://doi.org/10.48565/bonndoc-303

and the (extended) HTML version can be found at:

./html/introduction.html