Mathematician:Alfred North Whitehead

English mathematician who also studied philosophy.

Best known for his co-authorship with Bertrand Russell of Principia Mathematica, published from 1910.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 15 Feb 1861, Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Kent, England
 * Died: 30 Dec 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Books and Papers

 * 1898: A Treatise on Universal Algebra, with Applications
 * 1910 - 1913: Principia Mathematica (with Bertrand Russell)
 * 1911: An Introduction to Mathematics
 * 1920: The Concept of Nature
 * 1925: Science and the Modern World

Notable Quotes

 * "... by the aid of symbolism, we can make transitions in reasoning almost mechanically by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain."
 * -- An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
 * "I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer such a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologise, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are."
 * -- The Concept of Nature (1920)
 * "The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit."
 * -- Science and the Modern World (1925)


 * "Give up illusions about ideas of order, accept nothing of inherited norm. Spread joy and revolution. It is the business of the future to be dangerous."
 * -- Science and the Modern World (1925)

Also see

 * : $1.4$: Symbolic Logic