Tutte, William Thomas

Tutte, William Thomas
▪ 2003

      British-born Canadian mathematician (b. May 14, 1917, Newmarket, Suffolk, Eng.—d. May 2, 2002, Waterloo, Ont.), deciphered a crucial clue to the Nazis' so-called Tunny code as a member of the secret code-breaking team at Britain's Bletchley Park during World War II. Tutte studied chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge, where, as a member of the Trinity Mathematical Society, he helped solve the long-standing mathematical puzzle of how to subdivide a square into smaller, unequally sized squares. Working at Bletchley Park from May 1941, Tutte applied a new idea on graph theory to work out on paper the fundamental pattern behind Tunny; this breakthrough and other complex algorithms he devised eventually contributed to the code-breaking Colossus computer. After receiving his doctorate in mathematics at Cambridge (1948), Tutte settled in Canada. He taught mathematics at the University of Toronto (1948–62) and at the University of Waterloo (1962–85), where he was head of the department of combinatorics and optimization and editor of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Tutte's books included Connectivity in Graphs (1966), Graph Theory (1984), and a memoir, Graph Theory as I Have Known It (1998). He was a fellow of the British Royal Society and the Canadian Royal Society and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2001.

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