Were the world’s most “difficult” math problems constructed to be unsolvable?
In: Mathematics
No, maybe your math teacher did intend for it. However, at the scholar level, it’s a practice of “I figured something out that I don’t know the answer to” when you have all of the available pieces of the puzzle.
There’s something else as well. The most difficult math problems are more phylisophical than equations. That means, you can’t write them with numbers, you write them in sentences. Here’s some examples
There was a theory that you could always color in a map if you have 4 colors. There was a theory that if you take a knot and picture it from the other side, it is the same knot. There was a theory that this one way was the densest way to pack spheres.
All of these were math problems. Because you can’t really solve them with like philosophy or science.
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