W. T. Tutte

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W. T. Tutte was a British-Canadian mathematician and codebreaker renowned for his pivotal role in deciphering the German Lorenz cipher during World War II and for foundational contributions to graph theory and combinatorics.

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W. T. Tutte canonical 2
William T. Tutte 2
William Thomas Tutte 1

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instanceOf codebreaker
combinatorialist
graph theorist
human
mathematician
awardReceived FRS
Officer of the Order of Canada
countryOfCitizenship Canada
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1917-05-14
dateOfDeath 2002-05-02
doctoralStudent C. A. B. Smith
D. A. Holton
J. A. Bondy
educatedAt Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
employer Bletchley Park
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
familyName Tutte
fieldOfWork combinatorics
cryptanalysis
graph theory
fullName William Thomas Tutte
linked to: W. T. Tutte
givenName William
hasAcademicAdvisor G. H. Hardy
W. V. D. Hodge
hasAcademicDiscipline mathematics
knownFor breaking the German Lorenz cipher in World War II
contributions to combinatorial enumeration
foundational contributions to modern graph theory
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Order of Canada
Royal Society
militaryConflict World War II
notableIdea Tutte connectivity theorem
linked to: Tutte decomposition

Tutte decomposition of graphs
linked to: Tutte decomposition

Tutte–Berge formula
Tutte’s wheel theorem
notableWork Tutte polynomial
decipherment of the Lorenz cipher
enumeration of planar maps
theory of matroids
work on graph colorings
placeOfBirth Newmarket, Suffolk, England
placeOfDeath Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
linked to: Waterloo, Ontario
positionHeld professor at University of Toronto
professor at University of Waterloo
sexOrGender male
workLocation Bletchley Park
Waterloo, Ontario

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Max Newman collaboratedWith W. T. Tutte
Steel Prize for Exposition namedAfter William T. Tutte
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BEST theorem originallyProvedBy William T. Tutte
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Tutte polynomial namedAfter W. T. Tutte
W. T. Tutte fullName William Thomas Tutte
linked to: W. T. Tutte