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Wilson Sutherland

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Wilson Sutherland
2004 painting by Jennifer Anderson
Born
Wilson Alexander Sutherland

(1935-09-26)26 September 1935
Died7 October 2019(2019-10-07) (aged 84)
NationalityBritish
Education
Scientific career
FieldsAlgebraic topology
Institutions
Thesis Theory and Applications of Algebraic Topology[1]  (1963)
Doctoral advisorsJ. H. C. Whitehead
Ioan James
Websitewww.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/wilson.sutherland
Plaque in New College, Oxford

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.[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

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ a b Wilson Sutherland at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Author biography from Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces (2nd ed.)". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 October 2016 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Sutherland". Family Notices. Forres Gazette. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  4. ^ Reviews of Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces: