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| Name: |
Alfred North Whitehead | | Birth Date: |
February 15, 1861 | | Death Date: |
December 30, 1947 | | Place of Birth: |
Kent, England | | Place of Death: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
mathematician, philosopher |
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 Biography of Alfred North Whitehead
1,215 words, approx. 4 pages
 English-born American mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) pioneered in mathematical logic, demonstrating that all mathematics may be derived from a few logical concepts. He also produced a comprehensive philosophical system... summary from source:
 Biography of Alfred North Whitehead
357 words, approx. 1 pages
Alfred Whitehead was born the son of an English school teacher who later became an Anglican clergyman. As a young man, Whitehead excelled in mathematics and in 1880 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a mathematics student. His interests extended... summary from source:
 Biography of Alfred North Whitehead
8,706 words, approx. 29 pages
 Alfred North Whitehead is acknowledged as one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. A Cambridge University-trained mathematician, he collaborated with Bertrand Russell on the epoch-making Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), gaining a...
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 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
3,667 words, approx. 12 pages
Alfred North Whitehead , OM ( 15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947 ) was a British mathematician who became an American philosopher. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 An Introduction to Mathematics (1911) 1.2 Science and the Modern World (1925) 1.3 The Aims of...
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 Whitehead, Alfred North Summary
1,068 words, approx. 4 pagesWHITEHEAD, ALFRED NORTH (1861–1947), English mathematician and philosopher, much of whose influence has been on theology. Whitehead grew up in a vicarage in the south of England and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he subsequently... summary from source:
 Whitehead, Alfred N : Philosophy Terms
116 words, approx. 1 pages. 1861–1947. Born in Thanet, he worked mainly in Cambridge, London and Harvard. His early work was in mathematics and logic, in which he taught, and then collaborated with, RUSSELL. Later he turned more to METAPHYSICS, and developed a philosophy... summary from source:
 Alfred North Whitehead Summary
78 words, approx. 1 pages1861-1947 English philosopher and mathematician who made valuable contributions to the fields of pure and applied mathematics. Whitehead was educated at Cambridge and became a professor at the University of London and later at Harvard. He authored... summary from source:
 Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947) Summary
6,022 words, approx. 20 pagesWhitehead, Alfred North(1861–1947) Alfred North Whitehead, the philosopher and mathematician, made one of the outstanding attempts in his generation to produce a comprehensive metaphysical system that would take account of scientific cosmology.... summary from source:
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 Albany Law Review Whitehead's metaphysics and the law: a dialogue..(Alfred North Whitehead)
09/22/1998: 41,860 words, approx. 140 pages "That 'all things flow' is the first vague generalization which the unsystematized, barely analysed, intuition of men has produced."(1) I. INTRODUCTION The purposes of this Article are to explore the relationship between Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy and the nature of... summary from source:
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6/20/2007: 620 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Wednesday, June 20, the 171st day of 2007. There are 194 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 20, 1893, a jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden not guilty of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.On this...
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Critical Essay by Bruce Holsapple
12,908 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, Holsapple regards the correlation between Whitehead's ideas in Science and the Modern World and William Carlos Williams's in The Embodiment of Knowledge.
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Critical Essay by David R. Griffin
11,089 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Griffin explores parallels between Whitehead's thought and the doctrines of Buddhism.
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