Wilson Sutherland
British mathematician (1935–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilson Alexander Sutherland (26 September 1935 – 7 October 2019) was a British mathematician at the University of Oxford.
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Born | Wilson Alexander Sutherland (1935-09-26)26 September 1935 |
Died | 7 October 2019(2019-10-07) (aged 84) |
Nationality | British |
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Fields | Algebraic topology |
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Thesis | Theory and Applications of Algebraic Topology[1] (1963) |
Doctoral advisors | J. H. C. Whitehead Ioan James |
Website | www |
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Sutherland earned a doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1963 under the joint supervision of J. H. C. Whitehead and Ioan James, with a dissertation in algebraic topology.[1] He was, for many years, a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford, and a mathematics tutor at New College. He also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Manchester, and, as a visiting professor, at Yale University and the University of Aberdeen.[2]
Sutherland died at his home in Cumbria on 7 October 2019 at the age of 84.[3]