If math is a such a definite subject with solid answers, how are there still unsolved math problems? How do people even come up with them?

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If math is a such a definite subject with solid answers, how are there still unsolved math problems? How do people even come up with them?

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Math is the study of what’s true. You start with a few obvious things that you know are true, and from them you prove new things, which are also true. You can use those new truths to prove more things, and so on. It never stops, unless you want it to.

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