Wrote more of it out.
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I think both @ryan1 and @sanstitre_has_left_the_building are right. Basically everything done is based on previously proven methods in some way, but math evolves and runs into new problems just like science, and creativity is needed sometimes just to get to a solution, or at least to find more efficient methods.
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Truth! 
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When I completed the CPA exam, I vowed never to take another test in my life. I already had a Masters in Accounting at that point, so if I theoretically were to go back to college it would be for a PhD or for a completely different degree. Itâs been 14 years and I simply canât imagine ever going back.
Get a room.
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I never said creativity wasnât needed. That was @sanstitre_has_left_the_building putting words into my mouth. But any creative solution is bound by prior knowledge in math.
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Where do you think the axioms come from?
The genius of Euclid was to construct his five postulates for geometry. The fifth postulate is not remotely obviously true or even necessary. He created Euclidean geometry. It was not there before.
Two thousand and a few hundred years later non-Euclidean geometries were accepted for the first time for which Euclidâs fifth postulate is not true.
Or look at the work of Einstein. He wasnât standing on the shoulders of giants, copying their homework. He conceived entirely new physics, and the math to go with it.
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None of what you said has anything against what I said. Einsteinâs new math, for example, was built upon everything else that had been proven before. He was a creative geniusâŚbut one who had gobs of intellectual learning (including math) upon which it all rested.
You are arguing not with me, but with a falsely constructed claim that I said or meant something I didnât.
In the meantime, you seem to think there is no way @Tall_Paul1 could know math well enough to solve your problem there unless he was a genius. (Then againâŚmaybe he is?)
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Same, and about 18 I think. It would have to be something both feasible and immediately useful/rewarding for me to even think about it. Probably best to work better and smarter with what I have.
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He most definitely is not.
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I just got a general MBA bc I didnât want to do a 5th year of college full time. Back in my day they didnât have concentrations, it was just an MBA period. Now that they do concentrations I went back and got mine in Project Management bc thatâs basically what I do now. It was only 2 courses, but oof. PhD is out of the question.
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pants are an illusion⌠what ? ! ? 
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A couple of years ago, during a 3-hour session of cracking Hotwire WDW codes, JJT paused to question the concept of mortality and also whether the denim around his thighs was really there. Then he quickly refocused and determined that 4.5-star hidden resort has to be Swan.
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You did this for âfunâ? You need to get your head checked, @Tall_Paul1 . That junk should only be done to achieve a grade or if your kids are kidnapped and thatâs your only way to break the kidnapperâs code.
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Thatâs actually a funny random line from the Avatar series - my DD15 and I still randomly use it once in awhile and I use the gif as a goofy response to topics that are confusing or have an unfathomable answer.
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Um⌠That sign is less than 10 minutes from my house, depending on the number of unnecessary U-turns needed to cross a street.
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