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| Apr 28, 2022 at 0:03 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | In Goro Shimura's memoir The Map of My Life, he says that he was once tasked with devising an ad hoc exam for a student who wanted to transfer to Osaka University. The student had taken a course in abstract algebra, so one of Shimura's questions was, "State the definition of a subgroup of a group and prove that the intersection of two subgroups is a subgroup." Other professors thought this question was too easy, but the student could not solve it. The question was indeed a good discriminator. | |
| S Feb 4, 2016 at 14:10 | history | answered | Dominic van der Zypen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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