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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Lets say that maths is just a big lego set.
Now a friend of yours wants to build a robo-mech from the parts, but it turns out there
there are no suitable parts for it.
So your friend modifies the existing parts and uses them to build the robo-mech.

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