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I mean, two authors of the paper are pretty well established in the field already

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Guth

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Maynard_(mathematician)




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.


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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