Early Life and Education
Tutte was born in Newmarket in Suffolk, the son of a gardener. At the age of 18, he studied chemistry and mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University. As a student he (along with three of his friends) became the first to solve the problem of squaring the square. Together the four created the pseudonym Blanche Descartes, under which Tutte published occasionally for years.
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