Alfred North Whitehead: Quick Facts


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Born February 15, 1861 • Ramsgate • England
Died December 30, 1947 (aged 86) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Notable Works “Principia Mathematica”
Subjects Of Study mathematics • organicism • education • formal logic • materialism • philosophy of science

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