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Birth Name: | Wilson Alexander Sutherland |
Birth Date: | 1935 9, df=y |
Birth Place: | Forres, County of Moray, Scotland |
Death Place: | Cumbria, England |
Nationality: | British |
Fields: | Algebraic topology |
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Thesis Title: | Theory and Applications of Algebraic Topology |
Thesis Year: | 1963 |
Doctoral Advisors: | J. H. C. Whitehead Ioan James |
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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.