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Alan Turing’s life and work presents an interesting case which makes him rather different than most of the heroes of the ‘great men’ meme.

His halting theorem and work on computability is too abstract and abstruse for most people to recognize its significance (at least until and unless they put their minds to understanding it), but his work in defeating the Nazis, and his important subsequent suicide, apparently brought on by what we now regard (rightly) as harmful bigotry, are the essence of drama. His is a modern Campbellian hero’s tale begging to be told.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Fac...