biography
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Whitehead, A(lfred) N(orth)
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| lived:
| (1861–1947)
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| biography:
| Mathematician and Idealist philosopher, born in Ramsgate, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he was senior lecturer in mathematics until 1910. He then taught at London (1910–14), becoming professor of applied mathematics at Imperial College (1914–24), and was then professor of philosophy at Harvard (1924–37). He collaborated with his former pupil, Bertrand Russell, in writing the Principia mathematica (1910–13). His best known philosophical works are The Concept of Nature (1920) and Process and Reality (1929). Other more popular works include Adventures of Ideas (1933) and Modes of Thought (1938). He received the Order of Merit in 1945. |
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