[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'. - Peter Guthrie Tait
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About Peter Guthrie Tait
Peter Guthrie Tait (28 April 1831 – 4 July 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline.
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