William Hopkins
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William Hopkins FRS was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the "senior-wrangler maker
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill
Peter Guthrie Tait
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Peter Guthrie Tait 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 w
Photograph of Tait in 1870, with signature
Tait, photographed in the 1860s
A postcard to Tait from James Clerk Maxwell
Tait's memorial plaque and grave marker at St Johns Episcopal Church, Edinburgh