During an undergraduate research program, I discovered a gap in a theory in PDEs which I’m assuming nobody else did because I was the only one who tried to foll

During an undergraduate research program, I discovered a gap in a theory in PDEs which I’m assuming nobody else did because I was the only one who tried to follow each step (just getting that far was the entire purpose of the effort!). My advisor said it would be best to fix the gap before publishing about it because multiple students entering the job market depended on the result being true. That was an eye-opening social experience.