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Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead

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Ramsgate, Thanet District, Kent, England
Death
30 Dec 1947 (aged 86)
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Mathematician and philosopher. Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and later Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. Together with Bertrand Russel wrote the 'Principia Mathematica', claimed to be the greatest contribution to logic since Aristotle. His incription translated in part reads: 'He could be said to have lived three lives in two countries, the first devoted to mathematics, the second to physics, the third to metaphysics'.
Mathematician and philosopher. Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and later Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. Together with Bertrand Russel wrote the 'Principia Mathematica', claimed to be the greatest contribution to logic since Aristotle. His incription translated in part reads: 'He could be said to have lived three lives in two countries, the first devoted to mathematics, the second to physics, the third to metaphysics'.

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  • Added: Apr 9, 2001
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21197/alfred_north-whitehead: accessed ), memorial page for Alfred North Whitehead (15 Feb 1861–30 Dec 1947), Find a Grave Memorial ID 21197, citing Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Maintained by Find a Grave.