Thesis
On this web page there are (or will be) four versions of my thesis, Glacier Dynamics, submitted in 1977 and examined in 1978. They are as follows.
This is the original thesis that is in my possession (possibly uncorrected?) scanned as a pdf. It consists of 208 + vi pages, approximately double-spaced, unadorned with any comment or alteration. In those days, one submitted bound hard copies (no pdfs then of course), and I think corrections were made by hand on the submitted copies, which then made their way to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The copies I have (one for me, one I gave my mother) appear not to have any such corrections in them. To my recollection, such corrections were minor, and in particular the examiners missed the two main errors in the thesis.
The original thesis has been typed in LaTeX, but otherwise unaltered, except for a very few minor editorial alterations (a list is included in the front matter), and some explanatory footnotes; in addition an explanatory preface has been included. It is single-spaced, and comes to 163 + viii pages. The page numbers of the original thesis are added in red in the right hand margin (where the page number is the first line of a new section then the original page starts with the section). Their position indicates the top of the original page. (The contents pages are not listed but occupied pages iii to v of the original.)
This is similar to acffolio.pdf, but a number of explanatory footnotes on the material have been added, in particular relating to the two main errors in the text, and also where corresponding material has been published. The LaTeX has been cleaned up (for example equation numbers will have changed slightly). The references have been supplemented by additional entries (separately listed). This, if you like, is the Arden edition of the text.
This is an elaboration of the original thesis, in the same sense as Anthony Payne’s elaboration of Elgar’s third symphony. If present, it will be an ongoing work in progress, which uses the same structure as the thesis, but corrects the errors, and will add or alter material in a direction which might lead to publication as a book at some point. Perhaps. While the first three versions above will be more or less constant, this last (if it even happens) is likely to remain as draft material for quite some time. The putative aim of this would be to provide a text for a course on Mathematical Glaciology.