On my to-read list is Turing's paper written as an undergraduate where he independently came up with a proof of the Central Limit Theorem, because he was not satisfied with the vague treatment he had been shown in lectures. He didn't know Lindeberg had already proved the result properly about a decade earlier.
https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/unpublished-manuscripts-and-drafts-amtc/amt-c-28
You can read a 1995 paper in the American Mathematical Monthly discussing this, here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2974762
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