How are complex mathematical equations “invented”? As in, how do you come up with the formulas and know definitively the answers to them are correct?
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Mathematics is a set of rules, and as long as you follow the rules you know that the result must be correct. This is called a proof.
Normally you don’t just “come up with” some equations. Most of the time you have some question you want to answer, and after putting together all the bits that form the question, and following some rules to simplify and/or solve it, you get the equation you need at the end.
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