 | 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... 17 KB (1,899 words) - 02:01, 3 March 2024 |
 | Euler angles (redirect from Tait-Bryan angles) vertical orientation. Alternative forms were later introduced by Peter Guthrie Tait and George H. Bryan intended for use in aeronautics and engineering... 45 KB (5,167 words) - 20:19, 16 April 2024 |
by the encyclopedist William Robertson Smith in an 1870 letter to Peter Guthrie Tait. The nabla symbol is available in standard HTML as ∇ and in... 12 KB (1,424 words) - 13:55, 20 February 2024 |
Vortex theory of the atom (section Peter Tait) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1867. Thomson's colleague Peter Guthrie Tait was attracted by the vortex atom theory and undertook a pioneering... 8 KB (1,009 words) - 12:25, 2 October 2023 |
 | New Town in Edinburgh, Tait was the third son of eminent physicist and fanatical amateur golfer Peter Guthrie Tait. The young Tait was educated at the Edinburgh... 12 KB (873 words) - 14:05, 13 March 2024 |
 | The thought experiment first appeared in a letter Maxwell wrote to Peter Guthrie Tait on 11 December 1867. It appeared again in a letter to John William... 37 KB (4,530 words) - 04:55, 15 April 2024 |
 | John Guthrie Tait (24 August 1861 – 4 October 1945) V.D. was a Scottish educator who became principal of the Central College of Bangalore prior to the... 13 KB (1,065 words) - 07:13, 1 October 2023 |
 | were knots in the aether led to Peter Guthrie Tait's creation of the first knot tables for complete classification. Tait, in 1885, published a table of... 49 KB (6,290 words) - 01:36, 2 April 2024 |
The Tait conjectures are three conjectures made by 19th-century mathematician Peter Guthrie Tait in his study of knots. The Tait conjectures involve concepts... 6 KB (671 words) - 07:53, 3 December 2023 |
 | (1): 77–99. doi:10.1080/18386318.2005.11681216. S2CID 148477456. "Peter Guthrie Tait" (PDF). Craik, A.D.D. (2007). Mr Hopkins' Men. Springer London. doi:10... 67 KB (2,876 words) - 06:51, 7 March 2024 |