Wilson Sutherland
British mathematician (1935–2019)
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Wilson Alexander Sutherland (26 September 1935 – 7 October 2019) was a British mathematician at the University of Oxford.
Born
26 September 1935
Wilson Alexander Sutherland
26 September 1935
Education
- University of St Andrews (MA)
- University of Oxford (DPhil)
FieldsAlgebraic topology
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2004 painting by Jennifer Anderson | |
| Born | Wilson Alexander Sutherland 26 September 1935 |
| Died | 7 October 2019 (aged 84) |
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| Fields | Algebraic topology |
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| Thesis | Theory and Applications of Algebraic Topology[1] (1963) |
| Doctoral advisors | J. H. C. Whitehead Ioan James |
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.[1] 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.[2]
Sutherland died at his home in Cumbria on 7 October 2019 at the age of 84.[3]
Publications
- Sutherland, Wilson A. (1975). Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-853161-6. OCLC 1679102. 2nd edition, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-956308-1[4]
- Crabb, Michael C.; Sutherland, Wilson A. (2000). "Counting Homotopy Types of Gauge Groups". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 81 (3): 747–768. doi:10.1112/S0024611500012545. MR 1781154.
