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Your history is inconsistent. Turing's homosexuality became public knowledge shortly before his death, which was also before anyone started writing the history
by thebooktocome 7y ago
Your history is inconsistent. Turing's homosexuality became public knowledge shortly before his death, which was also before anyone started writing the history of computing.
I don't think he's primarily remembered for his work on cryptanalysis. I think he's primarily remembered for the Turing test, followed by the Turing machine model, followed by his work on morphogenesis. That's just my opinion as a working mathematician.