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>>5199496
Math is extremely reliant on talent. On the basic school level, people good at it literally do not have to try at all. Every concept is immediately grasped, sometimes intuited or discovered before being taught it. I think most people can learn to correctly answer school math questions, but understanding it is the hard part. It's the understanding that I think is dependent on talent. Anyone can memorize how to solve specific problems. But only a few can grasp it's abstract substance.

On the real level, most of math was done by just 3 people, Euler, Gauss, Riemann. Then you can list a couple more people for the rest, maybe 30 names. Even more crazy, look up people like Galois or Ramanujan. Galois, when he was 20, wrote up his work right before he died in a duel. He single handedly created group theory and Galois theory and practically the whole of abstract algebra as we know it now. He revolutionized math, at the age of fucking 20. Ramanujan is another wild case, he was a nobody in india who learned from random british math textbooks he could find. Then he blew the entire math community out of the water with his incredible insight in number theory, such as the pi formula I've attached. This formula is still the basis for modern computations of pi.

How do you explain such incredible insights and the fact that so few people in history even matter to math? To me it's obvious that's it's talent. No amount of hard work will ever let you understand math like these guys. Especially Ramanujan.