Question

Fellow mathers: Are you proud of your (math-related) thesis?

Answer 1

Even among papers in the usual journal of some medium level, most papers aren't that great or smart and no one really cares about the topic except the authors and perhaps like one or two other people. So in that way, I feel what I've done for my dissertation is a fairly typical maths research. Not extremely deep, sure, but relatively few papers in maths are very good (and those are then rightfully talked about).

Answer 2

I feel proud of my stuff.

Answer 3

I’m Proud, though I do feel Like a hack sometimes

Answer 4

Now what are the next people going to do if they want to use that inequality?  They have to prove it themselves, when they could have just cited your thesis.

Answer 5

Not math, but math adjacent (epi). I am HUMILIATED by my thesis. I was working with a mathematical epi professor, and I was having so much trouble fitting a model to our data with zero guidance. Emphasis on zero guidance. Prof wanted to publish it though, so as soon as I graduated (with a shitty thesis) he got a math/stats professor to come help and figure out how to model the data. Published now, but so different than the original thesis. I’m embarrassed because I knew my methods were shit when I wrote the thesis, but had no help. But you look at the final product and think “wow that’s so much better/more appropriate.” So embarrassing.

Answer 6

Maybe you are suffering from imposter syndrome.

Answer 7

Well, I am ashamed of my performance in my undergrad independent study, which culminated in a (poorly-written) paper. I wish I could go back in time and really put 110% into my studies during that formative time.

(PS: Is the title of this post trying to be a famous rapper? Because what it does is marshal mathers!)

Answer 8

I feel I've been summoned

Answer 9

I'm proud that I was able to understand a high-level topic for my undergrad thesis. Not proud of the actual document though because it was a complete mess lol. I'm glad it was never published.

Answer 10

If your supervisor suggests submitting it to a journal, I don't think you should refuse. At the very least it'll be a learning experience.

I'm fairly proud of my recent MSc thesis, in part due to the encouragement of my supervisors: some of my contributions I wouldn't have even considered to be contributions until I listened to their feedback.

Also, if you're willing to share, I'd love to have a look at your thesis since I've been meaning to get into ergodic theory :)