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Peter Guthrie Tait
Scottish mathematical physicist (1831–1901) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Born | (1831-04-28)28 April 1831 Dalkeith, Scotland |
Died | 4 July 1901(1901-07-04) (aged 70) Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Fields | Mathematical physics |
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Academic advisors | William Hopkins |
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His work on knot theory contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture on cubic graphs. He is also one of the namesakes of the Tait–Kneser theorem on osculating circles.