How does one “invent new maths”? Like Isaac Newton inventing Calculus, or John Napier logs. How does one answer a mathematical question that’s never been answered?

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How does one “invent new maths”? Like Isaac Newton inventing Calculus, or John Napier logs. How does one answer a mathematical question that’s never been answered?

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This is the reason why people generally refer to new ideas in math as discoveries and not inventions. It all already exists, it’s just that no one has looked at it in the right way or in the right place for a solution.

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