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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 (* 28. April 1831 in Dalkeith, in Midlothian, Schottland; † 4. Juli 1901 in Edinburgh) war ein schottischer Physiker . Leben und Werk.
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
Born: 28 April 1831 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland Died: 4 July 1901 in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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.
Peter Guthrie Tait und die Ersten Knotentafeln. Chapter. pp 125–160. Cite this chapter. Download book PDF. Moritz Epple. 140 Accesses. Zusammenfassung. Im Herbst des Jahres 1876 begann Tait ernsthaft damit, sich dem Problem der Knotenklassifikation zuzuwenden. Seine Bemühungen stehen im Zentrum dieses Kapitels.
- Moritz Epple
- 1999
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. He had held the Chair of Mathematics at Queen's College Belfast since 1854, and had been a Fellow ...
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.
