> Imagine waking up one morning to find that an alien technology has solved the problem you had dedicated your life to
I'm sympathetic to mathematicians but this does not paint them in a good light.
If your primary purpose is SOLVING the problem, you should be ecstatic! If your primary purpose was rent-seeking so you could play with puzzles*, you'd be very upset.
* I find this characterization overly harsh, but if you're mad about your problem being solved, maybe you weren't in it for the right reasons
I'm sympathetic to mathematicians but this does not paint them in a good light.
If your primary purpose is SOLVING the problem, you should be ecstatic! If your primary purpose was rent-seeking so you could play with puzzles*, you'd be very upset.
* I find this characterization overly harsh, but if you're mad about your problem being solved, maybe you weren't in it for the right reasons