| RefNo | EC/1987/38 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XXII, 85 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Tutte, William Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1980 |
| Description | Citation handwritten |
| Citation | Distinguished for his contributions to combinatorics, especially graphs, maps and matroids. During his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge (1942-49) his field of study changed from chemistry to graph theory, on which he became the world's leading authority. His discovery (in 1954) of chromatic polynomials developed in unexpected ways, culminating in his five papers on 'chromatic sums for rooted planar triangulations' (1971-74). In 1975 he presented a rigorous theory to justify the use of coefficient comparisons in formal power series. In 1977 his achievements were celebrated in a Cambridge Combinatorial Conference, with participants from many countries. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4056 | Tutte; William Thomas (1917 - 2002) | 1917 - 2002 |