Mathematician:William Thomas Tutte

Mathematician
English codebreaker and mathematician working on the foundations of graph theory and matroid theory.

Made a fundamental breakthrough in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, which contributed significantly to the defeat of Germany in the Second World War.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 14 May 1917 in Newmarket, Suffolk, England
 * Died: 2 May 2002 in Waterloo, Canada

Theorems and Definitions

 * BEST Theorem (with, and )
 * Hanani-Tutte Theorem (with )
 * Peripheral Cycle
 * Tutte 12-Cage
 * Tutte Embedding
 * Tutte Graph
 * Tutte Homotopy Theorem
 * Tutte Matrix
 * Tutte Polynomial
 * Tutte Theorem
 * Tutte-Berge Formula (with )
 * Tutte-Coxeter Graph (with )
 * Tutte-Grothendieck Invariant (with )
 * 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

Publications

 * 1948: An Algebraic Theory of Graphs