Biography:Wilson Sutherland

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Short description: British mathematician (1935–2019)
Wilson Sutherland
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2004 painting by Jennifer Anderson
Born
Wilson Alexander Sutherland

Forres, County of Moray, Scotland
Died7 October 2019(2019-10-07) (aged 84)
Cumbria, England
NationalityBritish
Education
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebraic topology
Institutions
ThesisTheory and Applications of Algebraic Topology[1] (1963)
Doctoral advisorsJ. H. C. Whitehead
Ioan James
Websitewww.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/wilson.sutherland

Wilson Alexander Sutherland (26 September 1935 – 7 October 2019) was a British mathematician at the University of Oxford.

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]

Publications

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wilson Sutherland at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Author biography from Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces (2nd ed.)". Oxford University Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=njLiQKC8vhoC. 
  3. "Sutherland". Forres Gazette. https://www.forres-gazette.co.uk/family-notices/death-notices/sutherland-aa067914-v1-14/. Retrieved 2020-08-20. 
  4. Reviews of Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces: