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Peter Guthrie Tait, a Common card
Peter Guthrie Tait was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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.
- His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture on cubic graphs.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Peter Guthrie Tait article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Peter Guthrie Tait (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : "Dr Adamson of St Andrews", Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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