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Yes but it's Terence Tao. I mean, the set of living mathematicians is not well ordered on greatness but if it were, Terence Tao would be fairly close to the upper limit.

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Maynard won a Fields medal, Tao is of course in the elite, but so is JM.

Maynard is a Fields Medallist, so is also one of the strongest mathematicians around.

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