W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (born 1917)

W. T. Tutte

British-Canadian codebreaker and mathematician (1917–2002)

William Thomas Tutte was an English and Canadian code breaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht…