Timeline for Examples of new results found via exams [closed]
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| Dec 27, 2022 at 8:45 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by David Roberts♦ | ||
| Dec 27, 2022 at 5:22 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | More generally, if you want to find examples, the list of IMO special prizes might be a good starting point. These are awarded for particularly beautiful solutions, and some of them might count as a "new proof of an existing result." But I don't know if the prize-winning solutions are published anywhere. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 5:14 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | A possible answer is Problem 6 of the 1988 Mathematics Olympiad. There is circumstantial evidence that Emanouil Atanassov's solution came as a surprise. (I asked on the HSM StackExchange about this origin of the IMO problem but did not receive any answers.) Atanassov's method is now typically called Vieta jumping. As explained on math.SE, the method is implicit in the theory of symmetries of conics, but arguably not explicit. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 5:02 | history | closed |
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| Dec 26, 2022 at 23:32 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | I would suggest to specify the requirement that answers contain an explicit reference, to avoid the propagation of urban legends. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 22:17 | comment | added | LSpice | For questions that, by design, do not have a single right answer, I think it is usual to flag for conversion to community wiki. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 22:11 | answer | added | Marco Ripà | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 21:45 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 26, 2022 at 21:23 | history | asked | Mustafa Said | CC BY-SA 4.0 |