W. T. Tutte

William Thomas Tutte OC FRS FRSC was an English and Canadian codebreaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of... Wikipedia

• Born:  May 14, 1917, Newmarket, Suffolk, England
• Age at death:  84 years
• Died:  May 02, 2002, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
• Fields:  Mathematics
• Institutions:  University of Toronto, University of Waterloo
• Alma mater:  Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD)
• Thesis:  An Algebraic Theory of Graphs (1948)
• Doctoral students:  W. G. Brown, Neil Robertson
• Known for:  BEST theorem, Hanani–Tutte theorem, Peripheral cycle, Tutte 12-cage, Tutte embedding, Tutte graph, Tutte homotopy theorem, Tutte matrix, Tutte polynomial, Tutte theorem, Tutte–Berge formula, Tutte–Coxeter graph, Tutte–Grothendieck invariant, Tutte's "1+2 break in", Tutte's 1-factor theorem, Tutte's fragment, Tutte's linking theorem, Tutte's planarity criterion, Tutte's statistical method, Tutte's triangle lemma, Tutte's unimodular representation theorem, Tutte's wheel theorem
• Notable awards:  Jeffery–Williams Prize (1971), Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1975), Isaak-Walton-Killam Award (1982), CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2001)
• Spouse:  Dorothea Geraldine Mitchell (m. 1949–1994, her death)
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