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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Sometimes, even if there is a solid answer, we don’t have the ability to get to it.
Take Chess for example. What’s the best move at the start? There has to be an answer, even if that answer is “multiple opening moves lead to a draw/win”. However, we do not have the computing power to go through all the possible moves that could prove the answer to this question. That’s an unsolved problem.
We can come up with many of these very easily, just by asking “given a set of rules, is a statement true?” And if that question hadn’t been asked and answered, then presto, you have just found an unsolved math problem.
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