Peter Guthrie Tait
1831–1901
Scottish mathematician and physicist. Studied mathematics at Edinburgh University and Peterhouse, Cambridge. Fellow of Peterhouse, 1852–4. Professor of mathematics, Queen’s College, Belfast, 1854–60; of natural philosophy, Edinburgh, 1860–1901. Published widely on mathematics and physics; published Treatise on natural philosophy (1867) with William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin).
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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