[tegeek]

If you take away all the media hype around Alan Turning and just see his contributions, he will still stand out.

On Computable Numbers [1] is perhaps one of the top 3 papers in the history of Mathematics. One of the most remarkable thing about Turning Machine is its simplicity.

Then again, in 1950, Can Machine Think[2] is perhaps the top 3 papers in the history of Philosophy. And then again, one of the most remarkable thing about Turing Test and the Imitation Game is its simplicity.

The impact of these two papers in the academia, industry and in our lives is huge.

Alan Turning is easily one of the top 3 Mathematicians and Philosophers of all time.

[1]. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

[2]. https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238

[wheaties]

Mathematicians? No. Computer Science? Yes.

If you want to group to math, you're going to have to compete with the likes of Euclid, Reiman, Bayes, Newton, Gauss, Cantor, Erdos, Fermat, Pascal, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Fourier, Cauchy, Jacobi, Hamilton, Galois, Weierstrass, Cayley, Dedekind, Klein, Hilbert, Brouwer, Godel...