This does not prevent him from being important, however, and recent work has suggested that he had a more major influence on the development of mathematics than had been once thought.
Hindi ito pumigil sa kanya mula sa pagiging mahalaga, gayunman, at kamakailan-lamang na trabaho ay iminungkahi na siya ay nagkaroon ng mas malaking impluwensiya sa pag-unlad ng matematika kaysa had been minsan-iisip.