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by mindcrime 2314 days ago
Has there been a genius of his kind since? Maybe Terry Tao, but his work also lacks the ease and lack of machinery that Ramanujan had. Truly amazing.

It's hard to compare mathematicians, but I suppose Erdős[1] would be in the conversation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s