If it weren’t for solitary geniuses, mathematics as a field would not exist. Nearly everything interesting was discovered by them, and nearly every mathematician I can name would count as one—Euclid, al-Khwarizmi, Galois, Ramanujan, Cantor, Goedel...
Ramanujan and Galois are textbook exemples of mathematicians who would have had a much bigger impact if they had not been as isolated.
(And Ramanujan most productive period was when he was working with Hardy and Littlewood).
If it weren’t for solitary geniuses, mathematics as a field would not exist. Nearly everything interesting was discovered by them, and nearly every mathematician I can name would count as one—Euclid, al-Khwarizmi, Galois, Ramanujan, Cantor, Goedel...
Ramanujan and Galois are textbook exemples of mathematicians who would have had a much bigger impact if they had not been as isolated. (And Ramanujan most productive period was when he was working with Hardy and Littlewood).
Also, Erdos.