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>>6645533
And here is another one:

André Weil, without hesitation, named[2] Siegel as the greatest mathematician of the first half of the 20th century. Atle Selberg said of Siegel and his work:
"He was in some ways, perhaps, the most impressive mathematician I have met. I would say, in a way, devastatingly so. The things that Siegel tended to do were usually things that seemed impossible. Also after they were done, they still seemed almost impossible."