An independent math researcher outside a university or graduate community may lack guidance about important open problems, feasible research targets, and influential papers or techniques.

“this is true even in academic fields so if you want to do math research but you're not part of like a graduate program you're not at a university where”

“There are tons of people who like do math research all day for many years then you're not even gonna know like what are the”

“open problems that I should be working on what is reasonable to attack what is not reasonable to attack like what what papers in this field are important contain important techniques you're just gonna have no idea so”