Alfred North Whitehead

Thinkers1861 to 1947Mathematician and philosopher

Works

  • Principia Mathematica, Cambridge University Press (with Bertrand Russell; three volumes, 1910 to 1913), 1910

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An English mathematician and philosopher who, with Bertrand Russell, set out to derive mathematics from logic in Principia Mathematica, whose opening part develops the propositional calculus; he later founded process philosophy.

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