Wilson Sutherland

Wilson Alexander Sutherland (26 September 1935 – 7 October 2019) was a British mathematician at the University of Oxford.

Wilson Sutherland
2004 painting by Jennifer Anderson
Born	Wilson Alexander Sutherland (1935-09-26)26 September 1935 Forres, County of Moray, Scotland
Died	7 October 2019(2019-10-07) (aged 84) Cumbria, England
Nationality	British
Education	University of St Andrews (MA) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Scientific career
Fields	Algebraic topology
Institutions	University of Oxford University of Manchester
Thesis	Theory and Applications of Algebraic Topology[1]  (1963)
Doctoral advisors	J. H. C. Whitehead Ioan James

Plaque in New College, 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

• 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.