I've recently come across a math phd thesis of a student from a prestigious US university in which he just computationally checked, up to a certain bound, a conjecture, without coming up with any new ideas. To me, this would be insufficient to get a phd, as there are no new insights. I was talking about this with a collegue, who showed me a phd thesis in which the main thesis was a not well-supported conjecture. Hence the question:
how common is for successful phd theses in math to have "little to no results" in them? Do you know any further examples (of course, without mentioning names, unis, etc)?
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