Skip to main content
Post Made Community Wiki by David Roberts
Post Closed as "Not suitable for this site" by LSpice, Denis T, Federico Poloni, Alexandre Eremenko, abx
Source Link
Mustafa Said
  • 3.7k
  • 2
  • 29
  • 35

Examples of new results found via exams

I suspect that there have been many instances throughout history where a new proof of an existing result has been discovered by a student while taking an exam. Does anyone have an example of this?