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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One thing to consider is that all the math you’ve learned had to be discovered by people who came before you. At some points in the past, people knew how to do some geometry but hadn’t figured out the quadratic formula, for example.

We have a similar situation now. There are things we know already and things we’ll discover in the future and things that will never be discovered.

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