Peter Tait (physicist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Tait (physicist)

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1831

Place of Birth: Dalkeith, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Jul-1901

Profession: physicist, mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.