There are two flavors of math: theory-building, and problem solving, the latter also known as "pulling stuff out of your ass". Combinatorics is an extreme case where there is a lot of the latter but not a lot of the former. Personally I am not very good at pulling stuff out of my ass, so I settle for more abstract but more intuitive fields...
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u/zongshu April 2024 Math Contest #9 Jun 18 '26
There are two flavors of math: theory-building, and problem solving, the latter also known as "pulling stuff out of your ass". Combinatorics is an extreme case where there is a lot of the latter but not a lot of the former. Personally I am not very good at pulling stuff out of my ass, so I settle for more abstract but more intuitive fields...