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	Peter Guthrie Tait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1860, Tait was chosen to succeed his old master, JD Forbes, as professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh, and this chair he occupied till within a few months of his death.
		Tait was an enthusiastic golfer and, of his seven children, two, Frederick Guthrie Tait (1870-1900) and John Guthrie Tait (1861-1945) went on to become gifted amateur champions.
		Tait himself had, in 1891, invoked the Magnus effect to explain the influence of spin on the flight of a golf ball.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Guthrie_Tait (837 words)

	Peter Guthrie Tait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tait had not been involved in experimental work up to this time and it is certainly due to the influence of Andrews that he added this interest to his growing range of skills.
		Tait had read Hamilton's Lectures on quaternions in 1853 while he was still at Cambridge but although the topic fascinated him he was more taken up with physical applications of mathematics at the time and did not pursue the topic at that stage.
		Tait was prone to let his heart rule his head in such situations and he often came of worse in the scientific debate.
	www.profcardy.com /matematicos/tait.htm (3540 words)

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		Tait was a candidate for the chair but so was Maxwell who had been forced to seek another post when Marischal College and King's College in Aberdeen combined.
		The claim that Tait was the better person to teach poorly qualified pupils was certainly a fair one and, of course, Tait's personality meant that he made a stronger impression on the appointing committee rather than the much more reserved Maxwell.
		Tait, although at first unconvinced by Thomson's vortex atom theory, began to include the theory in his lecture courses at Edinburgh in the early 1870s and he gave popular lectures describing the theory.
	www.mit.edu /~kardar/research/seminars/knots/history/Tait.html (3401 words)

	Peter Guthrie Tait and the Scrapbook
		P G Tait was born in Dalkeith on 28 April 1831, the son of John Tait, secretary to Walter Francis Scott, fifth duke of Buccleuch, and his wife, Mary Ronaldson.
		Tait was top of his class in each one of his six years at Edinburgh Academy but, of course, Maxwell was not in the same class.
		Tait was interested in golf as a game to enjoy, but he also studied it in his role as a physics researcher.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/HistTopics/Tait_scrapbook.html (4343 words)

	EM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901) was a famous nineteenth-century mathematician, who moved to Edinburgh when he was still young, entering Edinburgh Academy when he was ten; there he excelled in mathematics.
		Tait was one of the first to make a serious attempt at knot theory, fuelled by the ideas of Thomson, who claimed that knot theory was a way into understanding the problem of atoms.
		It is wonderful how Morgan makes Tait move from a view of the microcosm to that of a macrocosm, and ties that together with the same kind of imagery.
	www.edwinmorgan.com /cri_st_12_guthrie.html (424 words)

	Provisional Bibliography of Peter Guthrie Tait
		Tait, P G (1888) ‘On the mean free path, and the average number of collisions per particle per second in a group of equal spheres’, Proc.
		Tait, P G (1866) ‘On the value of the Edinburgh degree of M. A.’ (address to the Graduates in Arts, 24 April 1866), Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart.
		Peter Guthrie Tait’s wife (née Margaret Archer Porter) was the sister of the Porter brothers with whom Tait became friends during his student days at Peterhouse College, Cambridge.
	www.maths.ed.ac.uk /~aar/knots/taitbib.htm (6427 words)

	Tait, Peter Guthrie (1831-1901)
		This idea, in turn, led Tait, Thomson, and James Maxwell to do seminal work on knot theory, since the basic building blocks in Thomson's vortex atom model were rings knotted in three dimensions.
		He then went on to consider the coloring of graphs and put forward a hypothesis (see Tait's conjecture) which, if true (which it wasn't), would have proved the four-color theorem.
		This was a subject close to his heart because the third of his four sons was Frederick Gutherie Tait, the leading amateur golfer in 1893 and winner of the Open Golf Championship in 1896 and 1898.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/T/Tait.html (313 words)

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		Tait, Archibald Campbell, 1811-82, British churchman, archbishop of Canterbury, b.
		Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901, Scottish physicist and mathematician.
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	Peter Guthrie Tait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tait began to correspond with Hamilton in August 1858 and, in reply to Hamilton's question as to how he had stated to work with quaternions, Tait wrote to Hamilton on 7 December 1858 (see for example [6]):-
		B the time he arrived in Edinburgh in 1860 Tait was making strong contributions in applying Hamilton's quaternions.
		Now Hopkins stumbled into the controversy when Tyndall had asked him to send him all von Mayer's papers but then he was as pro-German as Tait was pro-British when he published an article in 1868 stating that not only did von Mayer have priority but so did the German nation.
	www.plccontrols.net /tait.html (3519 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Guthrie, Woody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Guthrie, Woody GUTHRIE, WOODY [Guthrie, Woody] (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie), 1912-67, American folk singer, guitarist, and composer, b.
		Okemah, Okla. Having learned harmonica as a boy and guitar as an adolescent, Guthrie was an itinerant musician and laborer from the age of 13.
		Woody Guthrie tribute is something to Bragg about.
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	James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
		It was here that he met Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901), a contemporary who pursued a very similar career to Maxwell's own, and who became a life-long friend.
		Tait later recalled that as a schoolboy Maxwell spent his free time 'drawing curious diagrams and making rude mechanical models'.(1) These pursuits contributed to Maxwell's rather uncomplimentary school nickname of 'Dafty', but bore signs of talent and originality - characteristics which his father sought to nourish by introducing James to the intellectual societies of Edinburgh.
		Tait claims that much of the paper was actually complete by 1853, although on the basis of surviving drafts, this early work concerned only 'the theory of incompressible fluids', with little connection to electrostatics.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/maxwell/maxwell1.html (1727 words)

	Tutorial, Electric Geometry - Nabla Del Hamilton
		Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait, 11 December 1867, on pp.328-334, of P.M. Harman's "The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell.
		Letter to Peter Guthrie Tait, 11 December 1867, on pp.333-334, of P.M. Harman's "The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell.
		But, it is obvious from the "reprint" of Maxwell's letter in Harman's work that Tait must have used the v-wedge somewhere by that time.
	www.hypercomplex.com /education/intro_tutorial/nablan2.html (1221 words)

	Kelvin Exhibit -- Predecessors
		Helmholtz's publication on the motion of a perfect fluid in 1858 had a major influence on Thomson's ideas on the structure of atoms and led him to publish a paper On vortex atoms in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1867.
		Peter Guthrie Tait and Thomson published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867.
		Part of his early education took place in Edinburgh Academy where he had James Clerk Maxwell and Peter Guthrie Tait as classmates.
	www.physics.gla.ac.uk /Physics3/Kelvin_online/colleagues.htm (690 words)

	MacGregor, James Gordon
		Educated at Dalhousie University, MacGregor was awarded a Gilchrist scholarship in 1871 and studied under Peter Guthrie Tait at Edinburgh and Gustav Wiedeman at Leipzig.
		When he received a doctorate from London in 1876, he had already had 4 papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
		He succeeded P.G. Tait at Edinburgh in 1901.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004909 (156 words)

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		Tait made very effective use of the operator in a series of papers, including "On Green's and other allied theorems" (1870) Scientific Papers I, p.
		Atled?" In a letter from Maxwell to Tait on Jan. 23, 1871, Maxwell began with, "Still harping on that Nabla?" Maxwell and Tait were school friends and the background to the fun was Maxwell\x{2019}s search for a suitable term to use in his own work.
		The circumstances of the use of the word by Tait suggest that the word was already familiar in the mathematical community by 1911, but give no clue as to the originator's identity.
	www.mat.univie.ac.at /~neum/contrib/nabla.txt (2740 words)

	Peter Guthrie Tait - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Image:Peter Tait.jpg Peter Guthrie Tait (April 28, 1831 - July 4, 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin.
		After attending the Edinburgh Academy and University of Edinburgh, he went up to Peterhouse College, Cambridge, graduating as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman in 1852.
		http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/knots/taitbib.htm - A large bibliography of Taitde:Peter Guthrie Tait
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	Peter Guthrie Tait
		Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the University of Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman, Peter Guthrie Tait was appointed to the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh in 1860.
		In 1873 he purchased the house at no 38 George Square, Edinburgh which became one of the last privately owned houses in the Square; the University purchased it from the Guthrie Tait family in 1964 to make way for the new University Library building.
		Freddie was Peter Guthrie Tait's third son; he was British Amateur Golf Champion in 1896 and 1898, and was killed in the Boer War in 1900.
	www.lib.ed.ac.uk /about/bgallery/Gallery/records/nineteen1/guthriet.html (231 words)

	Tutorial, Electric Geometry - Nabla Del Hamilton
		But, Tait seems not to have understood why Hamilton used the
		Tait writes - "I was originally attracted to the study of Quaternions by Sir W. Hamilton's
		That chapter remains unfinished, and as Hamilton rarely wrote down the steps of even a complex train of mathematical reasoning until he had mentally completed it, it is to be feared that this portion of his investigations is entirely lost."
	www.hypercomplex.com /education/intro_tutorial/nabla2.html (968 words)

	Tait, Peter Guthrie - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		TAIT, PETER GUTHRIE [Tait, Peter Guthrie] 1831-1901, Scottish physicist and mathematician.
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		From Vortex to Vorticism: Ezra Pound's art and science.
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	Prometheus Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the practical realm he created the absolute temperature scale (which bears his name); worked on the development of the first transatlantic telegraph cable; and invented a telegraph receiver, a compass adopted by the British Admiralty, a form of analog computer for measuring tides, and sounding equipment.
		The Elements of Natural Philosophy was done with Tait, a pioneering physicist and mathematician whose work in advanced algebra formed the basis of vector analysis and was instrumental in the later development of modern mathematical physics.
		Not long after its publication, however, was the advent of relativity and quantum physics, which considerably changed and enlarged the picture of the natural world as conceived by earlier generations of scientists.
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	Overview of Peter Guthrie Tait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tait was appointed to the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh (1860), a position for which Maxwell had been a candidate.
		Tait also wrote a classic paper on the trajectory of golf balls, his son Freddie Tait (1870 - 1900) having been a champion golfer.
		The Tait Professorship of Mathematical Physics remains an established Chair within the University of Edinburgh.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst832.html (148 words)

	Tait Family Crest by Houseofnames.com
		We have researched the Tait family crest in the most recognized sources of coats of arms.
		In the Tait coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
		We encourage you to study the Tait genealogy to find out if you descend from someone who bore a particular family crest.
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	Professor Lomonaco: Knots and Electrodynamics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The physicist Sir William Thomson (also known as Lord Kelvin) proposed in 1867 that physical atoms were knotted vortex tubes in the then postulated all pervasive fluid called ether.
		The physicist Peter Guthrie Tait became so enamored with Thomson's theory that he undertook a study of the mathematical properties of knots, thus giving birth to the field of knot theory.
		Although scientific evidence has since shown conclusively that physical atoms are by no means knotted vortices in the sense of Thomson, Thomson's theory has fragmented and relatively recently reemerged in many much more sophisticated forms in both classical and non-classical physics.
	www.cs.umbc.edu /~sammy/Abstract.html (264 words)

	Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (N)
		It was probably this reluctance on the part of Maxwell to use the term Nabla in serious writings which prevented Tait from introducing the word earlier than he did.
		The one published use of the word by Maxwell is in the title to his humorous Tyndallic Ode, which is dedicated to the "Chief Musician upon Nabla," that is, Tait.
		Maxwell and Tait were school friends and the background to the fun was Maxwell’s search for a suitable term to use in his own work.
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	AllRefer.com - Peter Guthrie Tait (Mathematics, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		Peter Guthrie Tait 1831–1901, Scottish physicist and mathematician.
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		Contains Peter Ackroyd's untitled poem beginning "We loved not yet nor quite".
		Peter Ackroyd reviews Edward Dorn's \i Hello, La Jolla\i0.
		Other contributors include Robert Kelly, Roy Fisher, Jonathan Griffin, etc. Loosely inserted is the publishers' compliments slip with an inscription by the editor presenting this issue to Roger Guedalla.
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	AIP Niels Bohr Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scientific papers [microform] / by Peter Guthrie Tait...
		The author's death prevented his carrying out this intention.
		Third title filmed with : Tait, Peter Guthrie.
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