> 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 never know...
Maybe there were other reasons why he was sidelined and (eventually) driven to suicide. Guess we'll just never know...
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.