What's also interesting is the existence of many profoundly gifted contemporaries in this same space of time, such as the Bernoulli's, Goldbach, LaGrange, just

What's also interesting is the existence of many profoundly gifted contemporaries in this same space of time, such as the Bernoulli's, Goldbach, LaGrange, just to name a few. He often corresponded with many of them as well.