Maths is so specific that often it takes you many years just to get to the boundary of the field. Aanalytic number theory is one example of a particularly hairy math people spend their entire phd on. The base ideas are simple, but the language that's necessary to express them in that simplicity is very non trivial. In a lot of ways, it's its kind of like computer science. You build on abstraction and abstraction, abstraction, abstraction,. untill you get to a point worried, like everything i to make sense.

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