So some random research notes and you got the solution? That would be like a programmer not knowing how to fix a part, then typing in "programming" into google and getting the answer they needed after clicking the "Im feeling lucky" button
it was probably a lot of basic research, not just notes. she was supposedly going to publish it, after all.
More like, programmer needs to find a module that runs in n^2 or better but only has shit that runs in n^4 with marginally better avg, and somebody pops in with analysis that leads to a new algo with nlogn average with n^4 worst case.
It was re-researched, note.