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MATHEMATICIAN

W. T. Tutte

1917 - 2002

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William Thomas Tutte OC FRS FRSC (; 14 May 1917 – 2 May 2002) was an English and Canadian codebreaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. T. Tutte has received more than 272,939 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. W. T. Tutte is the 861st most popular mathematician (down from 785th in 2019), the 5,212th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,625th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, W. T. Tutte ranks 861 out of 823. Before her are Neil Sloane, Phillip Griffiths, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Claire Voisin, J. H. C. Whitehead, and Timothy Gowers. After her are James Waddell Alexander II, Javier Perez-Capdevila, William Spottiswoode, Bill Gosper, Daina Taimiņa, and Peter Scholze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, W. T. Tutte ranks 297. Before her are Robert La Caze, Marcel Hansenne, Jack Lynch, Robert Merrill, Audrey Totter, and Denis Healey. After her are Laurie Scott, Fannie Lou Hamer, Hans Conried, Barbara Burke, Irving Kaplansky, and Ellis Clarke. Among people deceased in 2002, W. T. Tutte ranks 308. Before her are Tadeusz Rut, Shirley Scott, Alex Hannum, Otis Blackwell, Dave Williams, and Marga Petersen. After her are Lisa Lopes, Irene Worth, Ted Demme, Arthur Owen, Krishan Kant, and Jim Crawford.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. T. Tutte ranks 5,212 out of 7,765. Before her are Tony Crook (1920), Denis Healey (1917), John Houghton (1931), Paul Cavanagh (1888), Andy Fairweather Low (1948), and Steve Archibald (1956). After her are Jack Wild (1952), Francis Maitland Balfour (1851), R. S. Thomas (1913), Laurie Scott (1917), James Stephenson (1889), and Derek Fowlds (1937).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, W. T. Tutte ranks 102. Before her are Philip Hall (1904), Charles Hutton (1737), Simon Singh (1964), Neil Sloane (1939), Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765), and Timothy Gowers (1963). After her are William Spottiswoode (1825), Nigel Hitchin (1946), Keith Devlin (1947), Marcus du Sautoy (1965), Dusa McDuff (1945), and Stuart Milner-Barry (1906).

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