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Peter Tait

1831 - 1901

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Peter Guthrie Tait (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 Lord Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory. His work on knot theory contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Tait has received more than 7,154 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Peter Tait is the 827th most popular mathematician (down from 678th in 2019), the 4,181st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,366th in 2019) and the 86th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Peter Tait ranks 827 out of 1,004. Before him are Nikolai Bugaev, Ludwig Schläfli, Claire Voisin, Ivan Petrovsky, Heinz Prüfer, and Stanislav Smirnov. After him are Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Paul Montel, Garrett Birkhoff, Annie S. D. Maunder, Gregory Chaitin, and Curtis T. McMullen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Peter Tait ranks 97. Before him are Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Álvares de Azevedo, Lucy Webb Hayes, John Bell Hood, George Nares, and Eduard von Martens. After him are Mariano Baptista, Adolfo Ballivián, John Schofield, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Harry Atkinson, and Richard Norman Shaw. Among people deceased in 1901, Peter Tait ranks 85. Before him are Konstantin Stoilov, Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Joseph Olivier, Edward John Eyre, and Émile Fisseux. After him are Dimitar Grekov, Oscar De Cock, Kliment of Tarnovo, Henri Helle, Auguste Serrurier, and Victor Thibault.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Tait ranks 4,181 out of 8,785. Before him are Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (1883), Margaret Leighton (1922), Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1914), Philippa York (1958), David Walliams (1971), and Princess Beatrice of York (1988). After him are Bruno Heller (1960), Colin Baker (1943), John Major (1467), Mark Selby (1983), Jimmy Armfield (1935), and Jamie Campbell Bower (1988).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Peter Tait ranks 86. Before him are Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Horace Lamb (1849), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), Frank Morley (1860), Mary Everest Boole (1832), and Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909). After him are Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Thomas Henderson (1798), Simon Donaldson (1957), I. J. Good (1916), Richard Taylor (1962), and William Shanks (1812).

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