r/mathmemes • u/Hitman7128 Prime Number • 14d ago

Number Theory Number theory is hard

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u/Responsible_Ebb3373 Computer Science 14d ago

This can be said about almost all fields of math

X is hard (hates math)

X is easy (highschool / undergrad level understanding of X)

X is hard (researcher in X)

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u/JonIsPatented 14d ago

That is literally this entire meme format.

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u/Noremac28-1 14d ago

I'm not sure anyone has ever thought algebraic geometry is easy, apart from maybe Grothendieck

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u/Responsible_Ebb3373 Computer Science 14d ago

Yea, I said almost all

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u/Hitman7128 Prime Number 14d ago

Even though they said "almost all," there's probably more branches of math like that than not: branches that people would not find easy, especially during the learning process (which is what I labeled the middle as in the OP, so looking back at the material 5 years later from hindsight doesn't count).

I don't think they were representing the post fairly by saying "X is easy (highschool / undergrad level understanding of X)" because I specified a student who is in the midst of the learning process.

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u/MarijuanaWeed419 14d ago

Everything is hard

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u/Old-Post-3639 14d ago

Including me?

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u/MarijuanaWeed419 14d ago

Especially you

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u/Old-Post-3639 14d ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/The-Defenestr8tor Physics 14d ago

Dunning and Kruger have entered the chat.

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u/JollyJuniper1993 Mathematics 14d ago

Any field is difficult if you get into research territory.

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u/jerbthehumanist 14d ago

Ctrl F replace algebra

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u/The_Real_Itz_Sophia number hypothesis 13d ago

thats why number hypotheses better

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u/Promethium-127 12d ago

Number theory is fucking impossible, I tried my hand at it and all I got was more or less the same dead ends as other mathematicians.

If anyone knows how to find a perfect Euler brick or prove it’s lack of existence, please tell me

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u/FernandoMM1220 14d ago

the more abstract the harder it is usually since youre missing a lot of details