Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) was a British mathematician and philosopher. He studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, taught there, and later became a professor of applied mathematics at the University of London. In 1924 he moved to Harvard University as a professor of philosophy. Together with Bertrand Russell, he published the foundational work “Principia Mathematica” between 1910 and 1913. His other major works include “The Concept of Nature,” “Science and the Modern World,” and “Process and Reality,” which address topics including natural philosophy, the philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Whitehead was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1945.