What is Alfred North Whitehead?
[[File:Alfred North Whitehead - cropped.jpg|thumb]] '''Alfred North Whitehead''', [[Order of Merit|OM]] (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an [[English people|English]] [[mathematician]] who became a [[philosopher]]. He was born in [[Ramsgate]], [[Kent]], and died in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], [[United States|USA]]. He wrote on [[algebra]], [[logic]], [[foundations of mathematics]], [[philosophy of science]], [[physics]], [[metaphysics]], and [[education]]. He is the co-author, with [[Bertrand Russell]], of the important ''[[Principia Mathematica]]''.<ref>Lowe, Victor 1985/90. ''Alfred North Whitehead: the man and his work''. 2 vols, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{-}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Whitehead, Alfred North}} [[Category:1861 births]] [[Category:1947 deaths]] [[Category:English mathematicians]] [[Category:English philosophers]] [[Category:Order of Merit]] [[Category:People from Kent]] [[Category:Ramsgate]]