Mathematician:Guthrie

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Guthrie may refer to:

Francis Guthrie $($$\text {1831}$ – $\text {1899}$$)$

English-born, later South African, mathematician and botanist, who is best known in the field of mathematics for posing the Four Color Theorem in $1852$.
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Peter Guthrie Tait $($$\text {1831}$ – $\text {1901}$$)$

Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics.

Best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin.

Also known for his early investigations into knot theory.
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