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This myth of him just coming up with results without all the hard studying he did is often repeated. His results are made to be seen as impossibly hard and his impact is overstated. Galois solved a problem that was open for 350 years, he made significant contributions to new branches of math and he died at 20. I don’t like the whole ranking thing, but with all the myths surrounding Ramanujan I feel compelled to say Ramanujan is overrated and Galois is by far the more gifted and accomplished to just name one person.



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