The first time I hard someone put forth the theory that Satoshi may have been John Nash I rejected it quickly.

But over time I realized he did fit the variables in a curiously exact way.

What you mention... The synthesis of ideas. Well Nash had been publishing (white)papers like "Asymptotically Ideal Money" which were describing bitcoin basically in the decade before its release.

Nash was also a self taught C++ programmer. (Partly as a therapy for his mental illness)

I am not saying it was he... Or not. But is an ineresting rabbit hole.