Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was born in 1861 in Ramsgate, Kent, the son of a clergyman and schoolmaster. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied and then taught mathematics for about thirty years. One of his students was Bertrand Russell, and together they wrote Principia Mathematica, published in three volumes between 1910 and 1913, an ambitious attempt to show that mathematics could be derived from logic. Whitehead later taught at University College London and at Imperial College. In 1924, at the age of 63, he accepted a post as professor of philosophy at Harvard University, where he turned to the philosophy of nature and of science. Science and the Modern World (1925) traces how modern scientific ideas developed, and Process and Reality (1929) set out his philosophy of reality as a process of events rather than fixed things. He also wrote The Aims of Education. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1947.

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Faith: Son of an Anglican clergyman. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy