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W. T. Tutte

1917 - 2002

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William Thomas Tutte (; 14 May 1917 – 2 May 2002) was an English and Canadian code breaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht High Command. The high-level, strategic nature of the intelligence obtained from Tutte's crucial breakthrough, in the bulk decrypting of Lorenz-enciphered messages specifically, contributed greatly, and perhaps even decisively, to the defeat of Nazi Germany. He also had a number of significant mathematical accomplishments, including foundation work in the fields of graph theory and matroid theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. W. T. Tutte is the 940th most popular mathematician (down from 905th in 2019), the 5,526th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,079th in 2019) and the 101st most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, W. T. Tutte ranks 940 out of 1,004. Before her are Poul Heegaard, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Krystyna Kuperberg, Nikolai Durov, Peter Sarnak, and Christopher Zeeman. After her are Ormond Stone, Neil Sloane, Cleve Moler, Norman Johnson, Edward Charles Titchmarsh, and James Maynard.

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Among people born in 1917, W. T. Tutte ranks 326. Before her are Mervyn Wood, Dezső Lemhényi, Steve Cochran, Denis Healey, Valerie Hobson, and Brenda Joyce. After her are Elyse Knox, Leonard Chess, Merle Travis, Adele Jergens, Walter Lord, and Fannie Lou Hamer. Among people deceased in 2002, W. T. Tutte ranks 321. Before her are Jonathan Harris, Johnny Unitas, John James, Aglaja Veteranyi, Salman Raduyev, and Krishan Kant. After her are Sam Snead, Robert L. Forward, George Alec Effinger, Ward Kimball, Jack Fairman, and Pratima Barua Pandey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. T. Tutte ranks 5,528 out of 8,785. Before her are Sam Ryder (1989), Christopher Smart (1722), Jonny Evans (1988), Toby Kebbell (1982), William Morgan (1547), and Edmund Andros (1637). After her are Molly Peters (1942), Ben Daniels (1964), Max Hastings (1945), John Wark (1957), Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (1868), and Thomas Lodge (1558).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, W. T. Tutte ranks 101. Before her are James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), Philip Hall (1904), William Spottiswoode (1825), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), and Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765). After her are Neil Sloane (1939), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), James Maynard (1987), Nigel Hitchin (1946), Stuart Milner-Barry (1906), and Charles Hutton (1737).

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