Peter Guthrie Tait
1831 - 1901
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P G Tait collaborated with Maxwell, Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and Hamilton to make important contributions in both mathematics and physics.
Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
- Papers in the Proceedings and Notes of the EMS
- Topology and Scottish mathematical physics
- Tait's scrapbook
- Tait's 1888 address to the graduates
- EMS honours Maxwell and Tait
- Obituary: The Times
| Honours awarded to P G Tait (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1861 |
| EMS Founder Member | 1883 |
| Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh Maths Society | 1883 |
| Royal Society Royal Medal | 1886 |
Other Web sites
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- C Pritchard (A bibliography)
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