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Peter Guthrie Tait (Dalkeith, 28 de abril de 1831 — Edinburgh, 4 de julho de 1901) foi um físico matemático escocês. [ 1 ] É conhecido principalmente como autor do livro Treatise on Natural Philosophy , que escreveu juntamente com William Thomson , e por estudos iniciais sobre a teoria dos nós , que contribuiu para o ...
Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE (28 April 1831 – 4 July 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Lord Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory .
Peter Guthrie Tait. Born: 28 April 1831 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland Died: 4 July 1901 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Click the picture above to see three larger pictures. P G Tait 's father was John Tait and his mother was Mary Ronaldson. John Tait was a secretary to Walter Francis Scott, the fifth duke of Buccleuch.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Peter Guthrie Tait was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who helped develop quaternions, an advanced algebra that gave rise to vector analysis and was instrumental in the development of modern mathematical physics.
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Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE (28 April 1831 - 4 July 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline.
Peter Guthrie Tait was considered one of the best university lecturers of his time, and representative of a Scottish-Cambridge university education (as Thomson and James Clerk Maxwell were). Besides T&T’, Tait produced several other treatises and textbooks.
Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901) Professor of Natural Philosophy. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the University of Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman, Peter Guthrie Tait was appointed to the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh in 1860.
