W. T. Tutte - Personal Life and Death

Personal Life and Death

Tutte met his wife Dorothea in Canada, and decided hence to base himself there. After his wife died in 1994, he returned to live in Newmarket, but then returned to Waterloo in 2000, where he died two years later.

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