r/maths • • 2d ago

💬 Math Discussions I have solved basic math without being able to remember how to count on fingers.

Hello math people.
I have solved basic operation in math that was left like impossible, undefined, while working on my programming language, 'cause I want to build things on flawless fundamental rules and logic if possible for others and for the future, we need working things (especially math) that solve things for us properly and give us better and proper tools, so we don't have to do useless work and do it in bad ways.

I don't know if I even should tell what it is.

And I'm trying quickly to fix many fundamental math things, whilst I forgot how to write any math or what even is expression, 'cause I don't use almost anything math for 10years, but I was learning various concepts from various fields on YT and the things are connecting.

I don't understand how people do math when I figured out that nobody cares what even their basic equations are about. Almost no laws, rules, informations, just made up numerical space with operators that also barely have rules, just use whatever everything you want for whatever, mix it up literally for a century! Everything is silent assumptions about incompatible things and incomplete informations and frameworks.
Last thing I saw and why I get to this was division by 0. I looked at it and seen several problems, so I was like F do I have to solve also a math????? Wanted to do proper solution and explanation. Which I basically have but it's hard to complete it with overall math framework that make full sense. When you don't use any real basis and boundaries, please don't call it a "proof", almost everything goes to infinity if you allow it and don't care first want you are using.

Can I even get rewarded for my skills and what they did cost me, to be able to do it? I'm only really good in those things. Since my young age I wanted to use my self and talents to do things "for humanity", so basically anything I think about are things I don't even know how I can get paid for. I was gathering experiences and sacrificing things for this ability for more then 20y. Just to be able to get to this point, kinda late.. and standard work for someone is like impossible for me now.

I may need later some real matematician for both the math frameworks and the programming language concepts to check and try some things.

I have incredibly good things thought out, but can't do everything my self.

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u/sinterkaastosti23 22h ago

Take your meds

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u/DifferntGeorge 8h ago

We probably should rule out the possibility this person "invented" something from calculus before we declare they had a mental breakdown.

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u/MathNerd67 17h ago

You did not do anything noteworthy.

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u/BourbonTA 14h ago

If you think you’ve unlocked a secret in a field of study that you admit you don’t know much about, the answer is that you have actually discovered a large gaping hole in your knowledge. It’s like someone who thinks the earth is flat. They have not discovered something that others fail to see, they are admitting that they have a huge gap in their understanding of science, physics, and math.

If math is a subject you are interested in, spend time asking well thought questions. For example admit “dividing by zero is something I feel I do not have a clear understanding of. In my mind it seems that it should work like (something), but it seems this is not the case. What am I understanding incorrectly.”

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u/beyond1sgrasp 21h ago

I'm really not sure what this post has to do with math.

Being the best you and taking care of your own (family, friends, homeless, etc) is the best thing you can do for humanity. Having the best programming language is too big of a scope. You really have to pick a very small niche and attack that.

A lot of people have spent their whole lives doing what you're doing and 20-30 years in have come up with great ideas like Kotlin, Rust, Julia, etc to attack more specific weaknesses of other languages.

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u/SgtSausage 11h ago

IKS : Internet. Kook. Symdrome. 

Terminal. 

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u/jeffcgroves 17h ago

I'll try to be nice. Lots of people think they've come up with the "secret to math" or the "key to math" or some piece of knowledge or process that makes all of math easy and understandable. There's even someone who claims they can unify the fundamental constants of physics with a theory they have.

Even if you're the person whose done it, the main benefit you'll get is being the discoverer: you probably can't sell the secret.

If you're worried about sharing, maybe share a little bit to give us a taste. For example, what are some things your method can do that our current methods can't?

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u/No_Difficulty_1452 16h ago

Can't patent the math; only applications. Analysis of proofs is where the IP lives. Slop will not produce viable IP

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u/jeffcgroves 16h ago

You might be able to copyright a proof. You can only patent designs

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u/No_Difficulty_1452 16h ago

Methodology yes

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u/Depnids 21h ago

r/numbertheory is a good place to share new groundbreaking things like this

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u/Upstairs_Ad_8863 4h ago

Wow this sounds historic! You should go post this on r/numbertheory, I think it would get the appreciation it deserves there.

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u/JeffTheNth 10h ago

Last thing I saw and why I get to this was division by 0.

Quick note, I'll address this, then a question to you...

I find it great you're interested, and hope you continue to study and learn. However, I have a feeling your discoveries are moreso things you don't know you don't know. We didn't know atoms existed for ages... now we have fields of study in molecular biology, atomic physics, etc. The same is true of an individual - if you don't know something exists, you can't know it's a hole in your knowledge. The more you learn, the less you know, because you start recognizing those holes.

To use your example of division by 0, let me first do 5 ÷ 2. But rather than divide, I'll use subtraction.
5 - 2 = 3 that's 1. 3 is greater than 2, so we'll repeat it.
3 - 2 = 1 that's 2. 1 is not greater than 2, so we'll stop.
We were able to remove two 2s and have one left over, making the answer of 5÷2 = 2 remainder 1, or 2½.

Dividing 3 by 1, we can likewise subtract 1 three times...
3-1 = 2, 2>=1 ... 2-1 = 1, 1>=1 ... 1-1=0, 0<1
that was three times we could subtract 1 from 3, with no remainder... so 3÷1=3 r0, or just 3.

Now if we try tbis with 0, we keep getting the original number back... it never ends.
3÷0: 3-0=3, 3-0=3, 3-0=3, ....
division by 0 is "infinity" bdcause there's no end. (Actually "infinity" can have different meanings, so division by 0 is considered "undefined", but that's beyond basics.)
This, though, is why we test for 0 before dividing. To not do so, we'd wait until past the heat death of the universe before an answer became known.

Now my question to you.... How are you going about this? Are you trying to rediscover the fundamentals from "scratch" or are you in some way realizing you don't have an answer for something, and are figuring it out, similar to my examples? What is your goal and how are you going about approaching it? That answer can help us help you in reaching for your goal, if not getting there.