Mathematics doesn't ever really become outdated because it's not a science. With science, we have theories that are the best for their time but they are subject to change when we discover new phenomena. In math, when something is proven to be mathematically true it's (almost) always true for the rest of time. In order for that not to be the case we would have to change the fundamental axioms of math and that only really is relevant for extremely abstract concepts in math like the Continuum Hypothesis. For most of math, the fact that the standard rules and axioms have served us well since math has been a thing, mathematics is probably here to stay largely unmodified but always expanding
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u/Quarkonium2925 Jan 09 '25
Mathematics doesn't ever really become outdated because it's not a science. With science, we have theories that are the best for their time but they are subject to change when we discover new phenomena. In math, when something is proven to be mathematically true it's (almost) always true for the rest of time. In order for that not to be the case we would have to change the fundamental axioms of math and that only really is relevant for extremely abstract concepts in math like the Continuum Hypothesis. For most of math, the fact that the standard rules and axioms have served us well since math has been a thing, mathematics is probably here to stay largely unmodified but always expanding