Mathematician:Peter Guthrie Tait

Mathematician
Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics.

Best known for the mathematical physics textbook, which he co-wrote with , later.

Also known for his early investigations into knot theory.

Nationality
Scottish

History

 * Born: 28 April 1831 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
 * 1847: One session at Edinburgh University
 * 1848: Went to Peterhouse College, Cambridge
 * 1852: Fellow and Lecturer at Peterhouse
 * 1854: Professor of Mathematics at Queens College, Belfast
 * 1860: Professorship of Natural Philosophy at University of Edinburgh
 * Died: 4 July 1901 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Tait Conjectures

Publications

 * 1867: (with )


 * 1867:
 * 1873:

Notable Quotes

 * Even must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis, a sort of hermaphrodite monster compounded of the notations of  and .
 * --Preface to third edition of