I’m in high school right now (finished this month), and I wanted to share something that’s been kinda taking over my brain lately.
Around a year ago I watched a Veritasium video about the Goldbach Conjecture, and it honestly surprised me a lot — like how can something so simple to state still be unsolved for almost 300 years?
At that time I just thought it was cool and moved on. But since December, after reading about it again in a book, I’ve gotten kind of obsessed.
I keep trying to come up with different ways to approach it, like random ideas, patterns, “frameworks,” looking at it from different angles… but if I’m being real, most of it is probably pretty dumb or naive. Still, I can’t stop. I spend like 5–6 hours a day just thinking about it, even when I’m not actually sitting down to work.
The problem is, I know I should probably step back and actually learn more math if I ever want to understand something like this properly. But every time I try to study, I just drift back into thinking about Goldbach again.What should I do to stop this and learn actual maths?