Wilson Sutherland
Wilson Sutherland | |
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2004 painting by Jennifer Anderson | |
| Born | Wilson Alexander Sutherland 26 September 1935 |
| Died | 7 October 2019 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | British |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Algebraic topology |
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| Thesis | Theory and Applications of Algebraic Topology (1963) |
| Doctoral advisors | J. H. C. Whitehead Ioan James |
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. 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.
Sutherland died at his home in Cumbria on 7 October 2019 at the age of 84.