Yet the fact that he contributed to so many areas meant that he had usually moved on to something else when he might have been consolidating his work in a single area. Certainly his mathematical work, important as it was, never had the influence which he might have been able to have achieved had he continued to work in the area.
Pa ang katunayan na ang kanyang ambag sa gayon maraming mga lugar na sinadya niya kadalasan ay inilipat sa iba kapag siya ay maaaring pagpapatatag kanyang trabaho sa isang lugar. Totoong matematiko kanyang trabaho, mahalaga na ito ay, hindi nagkaroon ng impluwensiya na maaaring siya ay able sa may makakamtan nagkaroon siya patuloy na trabaho sa lugar.