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W. T. Tutte

British-Canadian codebreaker and mathematician1917 to 2002

Wikidata names Shaun Wylie as doctoral advisor and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Shaun Wylie

Students on Wikidata8

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Ronald C. Mullin
born 1936
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Neil Robertson
born 1938
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Arthur Hobbs
born 1940
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John Cleland Wilson
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Kenneth A. Berman
stated by Wikidata
Richard Steinberg
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Stephan Foldes
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W. G. Brown

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataShaun Wylie
2 steps up
stated by WikidataSolomon Lefschetz
3 steps up
stated by WikidataWilliam Edward Story
4 steps up
stated by WikidataCarl Neumannstated by WikidataWilhelm Scheibner

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 152 people: 152 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

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An Algebraic Theory of Graphs
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career6

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1928 to 1935
Cambridgeshire High School for Boys
studied
1935 to 1939
Trinity College
studied
1941 to 1945
Bletchley Park
worked
1945 to 1948
University of Cambridge
studied
1948 to 1962
University of Toronto
worked
1962 to 1984
University of Waterloo
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher, cryptologist
fields: combinatorics, graph theory, cryptography, Fish
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, 1987, Officer of the Order of Canada, 2009, Henry Marshall Tory Medal, 1975, CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, 2001, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1958, Killam Prize, 1982
member of: Royal Society of London, Royal Society of Canada
notable works: Tutte theorem, Tutte embedding, Tutte–Coxeter graph, Tutte polynomial, Tutte matrix, Tutte graph, Tutte–Berge formula
Wikipedia: in 24 languages

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Read on 16 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q1391861,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{W. T. Tutte: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1391861},
  note = {read on 2026-10-16}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 16). W. T. Tutte: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-16]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1391861