Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, [2] which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) was a British mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. In collaboration with Bertrand Russell, he co-authored the landmark three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913).
Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher who collaborated with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica (1910–13) and, from the mid-1920s, taught at Harvard University and developed a comprehensive metaphysical theory.
Alfred North Whitehead was born on , at Ramsgate England. Many environmental factors contributed to his personality. He grew up in a family which was concerned with education, religion, and local administration. His father and grandfather both had directed a private school.
The Whitehead Research Project website is dedicated to the research of, and scholarship on, the texts, philosophy and life of Alfred North Whitehead.
Alfred Whitehead was a mathematician and philosopher who collaborated with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica (1910-13). Alfred North Whitehead's father, also named Alfred Whitehead, was an Anglican clergyman from Ramsgate.
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Alfred North Whitehead - Philosopher, Mathematician, Logician: In the early 1920s Whitehead was clearly the most distinguished figure in the philosophy of science who was writing in English.
Alfred was ordained in 1860 as an Anglican priest, and quickly rose to prominence in the local church. In his autobiographical reminiscences, Alfred North Whitehead writes affectionately of his father and the prominent Anglican figures with whom he was acquainted, including the Archbishop of Canterbury.