npub1nf…3nqe4 on Nostr: - Indeed! I've also never liked the idolization of hard problems and people who solve ...

- Indeed! I've also never liked the idolization of hard problems and people who solve hard problems. They do prompt the creation of new ideas, but there's another less athletic approach to getting new ideas in math, which is just to think about structures and find patterns in them. This is what Grothendieck called the "slowly rising sea".