Peter Guthrie Tait citáty

Peter Guthrie Tait byl skotský matematik a fyzik. Společně s Williamem Thomsonem je autorem vlivné učebnice fyziky Treatise on Natural Philosophy. Thomsonova hypotéza, že atomy jsou uzly v éteru dovedla Taita k ranému studiu matematické teorie uzlů, která výrazně přispěla k rozvoji topologie jako matematické disciplíny. Je také autorem několika vlivných prací v termodynamice, jakož i děl o kvaternionů. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. duben 1831 – 4. červenec 1901
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Peter Guthrie Tait: Citáty anglicky

“[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.”

in an address to the University of Edinburgh graduates, as quoted by [Cargill Gilston Knott, Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait, Cambridge University Press, 1911, 11]

“Oh, that's nothing – I could coach a coal scuttle to be Senior Wrangler.”

when complimented about coaching his one pupil scoring higher than his rival's pupils at Peterhouse Tripos, as quoted by [Cargill Gilston Knott, Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait, Cambridge University Press, 1911, http://books.google.com/books?id=PSU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11, 11]

“The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.”

in Note on a Quaternion Transformation , Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1866), p. 117.