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> It's almost like Turing was hard to work with!? :D Maybe there were other reasons why he was sidelined and (eventually) driven to suicide. Guess we'll just

• racktash 3y ago
  Not looking to accuse the commenter of anything, but... I think the Imitation Game movie may have given some folks a rather simplistic notion of Turing (indeed, I was under such an illusion until I read the biography on which the movie is supposedly based): that he was a tortured genius singly vital to the war effort, who was then persecuted and who then as a result committed suicide. But his real story is more complicated (though, to be clear, I am not looking to downplay how society treated him). Turing's purposefulness didn't end after Bletchley or his conviction. Up until the end, he was doing ground-breaking work (at least as far as I understand it) in mathematical biology.