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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Generally speaking, most high-level math problems are proofs.
Proofs are far less like finding solutions and more so like discovering the laws of mathematics itself. Solving one, depending on it’s implications, is akin to discovering Newton’s laws of physics. We don’t tend to say we have solved a proof. Instead we prove it.
Hence many are unsolved and are, for lack of a better word, hypothesis waiting to proved right.
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