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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Surprised nobody has mentioned Goedel’s incompleteness theorem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

It was established almost 100 years ago that there must be at least some mathematical theorems which are true but unprovable.

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