Peter Tait
Physicist, Academic
1831 – 1901
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Who was Peter Tait?
Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the 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. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture.
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- Born
- Apr 28, 1831
Dalkeith - Also known as
- Peter Tait
- Peter Guthrie Tait
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Edinburgh
- Peterhouse, Cambridge
- Edinburgh Academy
- Lived in
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Jul 4, 1901
Edinburgh
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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