Triviality (mathematics)

Okay, let's say you have a math problem like 5+0=5. That's a very easy problem, right? It's so easy that we might say it's "trivial."

In math, "triviality" means that something is really easy or obvious. It's something you can figure out without having to use any complicated or difficult math.

So, when mathematicians say something is "trivial," they mean that it's not a very interesting or challenging problem. They might use the word to describe a solution that's too obvious to bother explaining or to dismiss an argument that's so easy to refute that it's not worth discussing.