Walter Whiteley
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Walter Whiteley | |
|---|---|
| Title | Professor |
| Awards | Adrien Pouliot Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Gian-Carlo Rota |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematician |
| Sub-discipline | Geometry |
| Institutions | Champlain College Saint-Lambert York University |
Walter John Whiteley is a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at York University in Canada.[1] He specializes in geometry and mathematics education, and is known for his expertise in structural rigidity and rigidity matroids.
Whiteley graduated from Queen's University in 1966.[2][3] He earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a dissertation titled Logic and Invariant Theory supervised by Gian-Carlo Rota.[4] He worked as an instructor at Champlain College Saint-Lambert, with a joint appointment in mathematics and humanities, from 1972 until he joined the York University faculty in 1992.[2][3]
Awards and honours
In 2009, Whiteley won the Adrien Pouliot Award of the Canadian Mathematical Society for his contributions to mathematics education.[3] In August 2014, the Fields Institute at the University of Toronto hosted a workshop on rigidity theory and spatial reasoning, "inspired by the distinguished career of Professor Walter Whiteley".[5]
