Mathematician:Peter Guthrie Tait

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Mathematician

Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics.

Best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin.

Also known for his early investigations into knot theory.


Nationality

Scottish


History

  • Born: 28 April 1831 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
  • 1847: One session at Edinburgh University
  • 1848: Went to Peterhouse College, Cambridge
  • 1852: Fellow and Lecturer at Peterhouse
  • 1854: Professor of Mathematics at Queens College, Belfast
  • 1860: Professorship of Natural Philosophy at University of Edinburgh
  • Died: 4 July 1901 in Edinburgh, Scotland


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Publications


Notable Quotes

Even Prof. Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis, a sort of hermaphrodite monster compounded of the notations of Hamilton and Grassman.
--Preface to third edition of Elementary Treatise on Quaternions


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