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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 (1831 – 1901) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician, best known for the physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with William Thomson.
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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 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.
