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Alan Turing, and no not due to the HORRIBLE movie that was made about him.

His work in computability, almost periodic functions, and other areas of pure math that aren't generally associated to his name, cryptology, and push within artificial intelligence and bio/chemistry-applied mathematics was widely influential. I cannot overstate how much the movie on him pisses me off due to the injustice it does to his story. It took all I had to not say a single fucking thing when I saw a gender studies woman looking into his story wanting to use him as a poster boy for gay rights. I mean, yes, gays should have rights I don't disagree--but that isn't why Turing should be so fucking famous.