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What's an innocent misconception about your hobby/profession that drives you up the wall? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like for example, how someone thinks because you work in IT you can fix their TV, or how if you're into music you must be able to play any random instrument.

I just like hearing pros rant about about their very niche problems.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are tons of misconceptions about mathematics, but the biggest and most baffling one is: that no new mathematics is being created, that the field is "done".

The opposite is true: there are more open problems than ever, and research is frantic in mathematics with hundreds of thousands of serious new theorems being proven every year by professional mathematicians, and entirely new mathematical vistas being discovered every few years.

In fact, the pace of research is so fast that we are now creating the foundations for databases of mathematical theories and their proofs in order to better classify and preserve them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but 5th grade math is "done" and that's all most people ever care to even know exists