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2020
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) was a prominent multidisciplinary figure, whose intellectual interests extended over mathematics, philosophy of science, history of science, education, religion, and metaphysics. The common thread to be found in Whitehead’s work across diversified disciplines is his quest for universal connectedness, which can be ...
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) was a prominent multidisciplinary figure, whose intellectual interests extended over mathematics, philosophy of science, history of science, education, religion, and metaphysics. The common thread to be found in Whitehead’s work across diversified disciplines is his quest for universal connectedness, which can be ...
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Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947
Science, 1948Alfred North Whitehead was born on 15 February 1861, the son of the Reverend Alfred Whitehead, at that time the headmaster of a private school in Ramsgate, and later Vicar of St Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, and honorary Canon of Canterbury. Another son, Henry, became Superior of the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, and ultimately Bishop of Madras ...
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University of Toronto Quarterly, 1946
The twentieth century has produced few men whose achievements in the fields of mathematics and philosophy can surpass those of Alfred North Whitehead. His is not a mere technical excellence. It is a competence which, on occasion, is adorned by an unexcelled brilliance of vivid expression. Learning sits lightly on his firm shoulders.
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The twentieth century has produced few men whose achievements in the fields of mathematics and philosophy can surpass those of Alfred North Whitehead. His is not a mere technical excellence. It is a competence which, on occasion, is adorned by an unexcelled brilliance of vivid expression. Learning sits lightly on his firm shoulders.
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1995
W. wird zusammen mit Bertrand Russell durch die Veroffentlichung der Principia Mathematica (1910–1913) beruhmt. Der junge Russell war W aufgefallen, als er ihn wegen der Vergabe eines Stipendiums prufen muste. Russell erwies sich schnell als sein begabtester Schuler und wurde zum ebenburtigen Mitarbeiter. W., Sohn eines anglikanischen Pastors, hatte in
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W. wird zusammen mit Bertrand Russell durch die Veroffentlichung der Principia Mathematica (1910–1913) beruhmt. Der junge Russell war W aufgefallen, als er ihn wegen der Vergabe eines Stipendiums prufen muste. Russell erwies sich schnell als sein begabtester Schuler und wurde zum ebenburtigen Mitarbeiter. W., Sohn eines anglikanischen Pastors, hatte in
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Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947)
2018Whitehead made fundamental contributions to modern logic and created one of the most controversial metaphysical systems of the twentieth century. He drew out what he took to be the revolutionary consequences for philosophy of the new discoveries in mathematics, logic and physics, developing these consequences first in logic and then in the philosophy ...
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