Alfred North Whitehead Biography

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NAME: Alfred North Whitehead
OCCUPATION: Philosopher, Mathematician, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: February 15, 1861
DEATH DATE: December 30, 1947
EDUCATION: Trinity College
PLACE OF BIRTH: Ramsgate, England
PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Full Name: Alfred North Whitehead

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British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s Treatise on Universal Algebra extended Boolean symbolic logic. He received the Order of Merit.

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Alfred North Whitehead was born February 15, 1861, in Ramsgate, England. His Treatise on Universal Algebra (1898) extended Boolean symbolic logic. He collaborated with Bertrand Russell on the epochal Principia Mathematical (1910–1913), which attempted to establish the thesis of logicism. Process and Reality (1929), was his major work in metaphysics. He received the Order of Merit in 1945.