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Be as brutally honest as possible

Is a 130 iq enough to be a good mathematician?
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>>15350103 (OP)
No, janitor tops.
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Why do people act like math is this difficult skill. Just express everything as tautologies to make progress with a proof. Stick to the methods and you can't prove something false. Literally it's as easy as practicing first with rudin, then jumping into some field of research writing out half finished proofs as your means of learning the material. Take notes in a latex editor like texstudio and then clean it up. Boom. You're a contributing mathematician. A 90 IQ monkey could do math. The only real filter is people feel to embarrassed to 
actually decipher the symbols. Just put in the work
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>>15350103 (OP)
>As brutally honest as possible
If you let anything stop you from trying, you won't have the determination and will to succeed.
There are plenty of very talented people with high IQ that seem incredibly talented... Untill they hit a roadblock.
The issue with being very talented is that life can be on easy mode for longer than is healthy.
You just cruise along untill you hit a road bump, but because it's so unprecedented it's like a wall with all of the weight of high expectations and no experience with hardship.

If you're pretty good with mathematics, do you have something else that you find hard and bad at but still continue putting your time into it and get better little by little?
Because no matter how smart you are you will hit a wall sooner or later.
You might surpas every other human but it will come and then it will be even worse because there's no one to ask for advice.

Something like that.
High IQ might be (I'm not really into this, IQ is most useful on population level, not individual. Too many additional variables) needed, but does not guarantee success. 
You can start with average stats but grind untill people start to assume you were a genius since childhood.
The power of will and discipline is more important than raw intelligence. 

At least that's how I see the issue.
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High iq without imagination and the capability to think is like soup without the veggies, it's just won't be useful
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>>15350103 (OP)
>>15350107

>Want to be smart
>Learn that the body only uses 10% of brain.
>Buy hammer and pikes from Home Depot.
>Hammer you own head until only 10% of brain is left.
>Give yourself a month and see your new IQ!
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>>15350103 (OP)
You could have a 180 IQ and if you're not motivated or don't really have an actual interest in it then you'll most likely struggle more overall than someone with a 110 IQ that spends a lot of their spare time reading about it because they enjoy it
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>>15350103 (OP)
It's more about personality

One of my physics professors is in top 30 smartest people on the planet. 183 IQ. But he's not much. Just another professor constantly complaining about low income. 

On the otger hand you have someone like Richard Feynman. His IQ is about 125. Midwit teritorry, yet he was so interested in how everything worked that it wasn't a problem.
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>>15350103 (OP)
You're basically on the edge. Yes, 130 is enough to be a good mathematician, but you won't be the new Pascal or something. 

Also, looking at the replies here, this thread looks more like a fucking Reddit thread lmao. Yessss kanggg you can do itttttt,,,,, itz not the intelligence jtzz the will!!!!! 

My ass. You can work hard but if you're dumb you just won't get far. Let me get this straight: Calculus and Algebra are some of the EASIER parts of maths, especially when we talk only about differentiating and integrating. Real maths is much purer and requires tonnes of creativity. You won't get far without that.
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>>15350103 (OP)
>130 iq
>good mathematician
yeah for sure if you work at it 24/7 duh but will you be a professor etc.? No you have no job opportunities in that front
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>>15350843
>Calculus and Algebra are some of the EASIER parts of maths
Honestly, this. People only think they're hard because that's what (((they))) told them to think.
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>>15350843
Are you implying that both Reddit and 4chan /sci/ don't actually provide genuine information but instead fall into one of the two camps? The first say "you can do it champ" and the second day "it's over" sadpepe.jpg?
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>>15350932
Both offer information. You need a good informational filter to get out the information that you reason to be true and dump that which is clearly just someone's attempt at trolling. With that being said, Reddifags care more about preserving their karma virginity than offering any kind of *realistic* advice
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>>15350825
Your prof. Is not 183 iq lol, iq tests dont even measure that high
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>>15350103 (OP)
Yeah - granted you’re prolly not going to invent any new formulae or anything but you would probably make an above average college professor.
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>>15350103 (OP)
>Be as brutally honest as possible
>Is a 130 iq enough to be a good mathematician?
No, not if you're hoping to discover something truly revolutionary in math.
You'll be able to use math at all levels. You'll be able to teach it. You won't be able to invent it (probably) without either luck or a herculean amount of work.
A few brilliant minds have invented the modern world and the rest of us are just kind of along for the ride. We're not useless, but we're not the ones shaping scientific history.
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>>15350103 (OP)
Probably not no

You could be really good at applied math, but real mathematicians do theoretical research which, at this point, is at an extremely high level and, absent serendipity, probably beyond your ability to grasp

You could certainly do fine as a math teacher though; even a professor at a community college or lower tier university should be well within your ability to achieve. But all these jobs are mostly about teaching, being a mathematician implies doing actual relevant mathematics for which the bar is just insanely high today.
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Good and bad are by products of meaningless social constructs who have the absolute authority to define it?

Math is about proof, not truth.
Want to be a mathematician? 
Easy, generate 2 random numbers 24 digits long and them make the sum.
Congrats you proved a theorem that probably nobody else proved before.
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Yes.
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>>15350103 (OP)
If you come from a "diverse" background, you'll be overqualified. If not, I'd say you are right around the cutoff point. It will be a bit of a struggle to get through the graduate material and develop a solid mathematical foundation, but after that you should be good. 

Contrary to popular belief, academic research can be the easiest part of the process if you play your cards right. There are quite literally an infinite number of unsolved problems of all difficulty levels. There will never be a shortage of moderately interesting low hanging fruit to publish.
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>>15350103 (OP)
High enough to enjoy the beauty of maths like calculating a water basin with calculus methods.
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>>15350843
>You're basically on the edge. Yes, 130 is enough to be a good mathematician, but you won't be the new Pascal or something.
>Also, looking at the replies here, this thread looks more like a fucking Reddit thread lmao. Yessss kanggg you can do itttttt,,,,, itz not the intelligence jtzz the will!!!!!
There's obviously correlation but there's more to it.
>>15355031
>Contrary to popular belief, academic research can be the easiest part of the process if you play your cards right. There are quite literally an infinite number of unsolved problems of all difficulty levels. There will never be a shortage of moderately interesting low hanging fruit to publish.
This.
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>>15350253
correct
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>>15350103 (OP)
Isn't 130 the average mathematician IQ
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>>15354801
What would you say is the minimum IQ?
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>>15356234
And also to be a good physicist?
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>>15350103 (OP)
IQ is your processor or so to speak.
You will take longer than higher IQ people to figure some stuff out, it will be harder. But your processing power is not so low that it will crash the program if you get what I mean. It's more than enough to tackle any topic as long as you have imagination and creativity (impossible to measure alas).
As I said, you will take more time to load the program, but if you have what it takes to use it correctly you can still outdo people with higher IQs than yours.
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>>15350103 (OP)
No
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No because the thing is you have to be more intelligent than that
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>>15356396
>>15356398
feynmann had an iq of 126
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>Calculus and Algebra are some of the EASIER parts of maths
Lol, something about the way you said that makes it seem like you just discovered that real math isn't plug and chug. Are you a sophomore or something?
>Real maths is much purer and requires tonnes of creativity
Which is exactly why it isn't as IQ-loaded as something like physics, hence why math students tend to have (slightly) lower average IQs than physics students.
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