This is certainly true of analytic number theory (and a few other sub fields of number theory!). Often (I’ve heard) you spend most of your PhD trying to understand the latest results of the field, and write maybe one paper Honestly it’s shocking just how much stuff gets done!
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Otoh, (and I say this as someone who knows No analytic number theory) I wonder how much of this is a result of having the wrong abstractions for said things? It feels like a lot of progress gets done in such fields with better and better abstractions
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Forget mathematics, we just need proper Vibe Tuning in our education system.
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