How to Pronounce Peter Tait (physicist)
#50
Most Popular
Boost
Apr 28, 1831 Dalkeith, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 04 Jul 1901 (aged 70)
British mathematician
TaurusPeter Tait Physicist - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Peter Tait Physicist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Peter Tait Physicist
- 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 Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, 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.
- He is also one of the namesakes of the Tait-Kneser theorem on osculating circles.
