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Peter Guthrie Tait (* 28. April 1831 in Dalkeith, in Midlothian, Schottland; † 4. Juli 1901 in Edinburgh) war ein schottischer Physiker . Leben und Werk.
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 .
24. Apr. 2024 · Peter Guthrie Tait (born April 28, 1831, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland—died July 4, 1901, Edinburgh) 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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. Peter had two sisters and he began his schooling in the Grammar School in Dalkeith. However, when he was six years old his father died and Peter, with his two sisters and his mother, moved to Edinburgh to live with an uncle John Ronaldson. An ...
Zusammenfassung. Im Herbst des Jahres 1876 begann Tait ernsthaft damit, sich dem Problem der Knotenklassifikation zuzuwenden. Seine Bemühungen stehen im Zentrum dieses Kapitels. Zunächst wird kurz Taits Engagement für Thomsons Wirbelatomtheorie beschrieben, um deutlich zu machen, daß er sich Knoten vor allem aufgrund ihrer erhofften ...
- Moritz Epple
- 1999
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) - Our History. 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.
