Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead


Born
in Ramsgate, Kent, England, The United Kingdom
February 15, 1861

Died
December 30, 1947

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Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.

In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. His most notable work in these fields is the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–13), which he co-wrote with former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century's most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list o
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Process and Reality: An Ess...

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Science and the Modern World

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Adventures of Ideas

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Modes of Thought

4.21 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1938 — 31 editions
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The Aims of Education and O...

3.79 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 1929 — 54 editions
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Principia Mathematica to '56

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An Introduction to Mathemat...

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Religion in the Making

3.49 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1926 — 55 editions
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The Function of Reason

3.83 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1929 — 37 editions
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The Concept of Nature: The ...

3.76 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1920 — 178 editions
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“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”
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“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ”
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