To be clear, I am not saying that Erdos and Tao are less talented than Euler. That seems impossible to say. But the magic of Euler is that his fingerprints are

To be clear, I am not saying that Erdos and Tao are less talented than Euler. That seems impossible to say. But the magic of Euler is that his fingerprints are all over so many of the fundamental things that can be understood by a bright high school student but were mostly unknown before him. The work of figures like Erdos and Tao seems far, far less accessible in its present form at least and thus more limited in its overall impact.