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  1. Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whitehead/

    5 Mar 2026: Alfred North Whitehead's father, also named Alfred Whitehead, was an Anglican clergyman from Ramsgate. ... show). Other pages about Alfred North Whitehead:. Other websites about Alfred North Whitehead:.

  2. Alfred North Whitehead - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Whitehead/

    28 May 2025: Alfred North Whitehead was born at Ramsgate on February 15, 1861, the son of Canon Alfred Whitehead. ... His younger son, 2nd Lieutenant Eric Alfred Whitehead, R.F.C., was killed while flying on patrol duty in France in March 1918.

  3. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Darcy/whitehead/

    7 Mar 2023: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) - was an English mathematician and philosopher. ... He corresponded with Thompson intermittently between 1906 and 1945. Alfred North Whitehead.

  4. Pictures of Alfred North Whitehead - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    2 Jan 2026: Royal Society obituary portrait.

  5. Royal Society obituaries - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    15 Jul 2026: From about 1850 onwards the London Royal Society published obituaries of their fellows. From 1934 onwards these were presented in separate volumes. More than 270 mathematicians in our archive have such obituaries. A list of the obituaries in

  6. Earliest Uses of Symbols of Set Theory and Logic - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/set/

    24 May 2024: The main contributors were Ernst Schröder (1841-1902), Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932), Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). ... The symbolism was also used in 1910 by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell in the first

  7. Obituaries Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    9 Jul 2026: Whitehead, Alfred North.

  8. British Association 1916 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    1 Oct 2024: Alfred North Whitehead was President of Section A of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1916. ... Alfred North Whitehead, the President, delivered the following Address:-. The subject of this address is the organisation of thought,

  9. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers © 2007 Springer Whitehead,… PDF (115k)

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    27 Feb 2026: Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers 2007 Springer. Whitehead, Alfred North. Born Ramsgate, Kent, England, 15 February 1861. ... New York: Macmillan. Whittaker, Edmund T. (1959). "Whitehead, Alfred North." In Dictionary of National Biography,

  10. 1974 ICM - Vancouver - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Vancouver_1974/

    15 Dec 2023: We understand, with William Wordsworth, that mathematics is "An independent world created out of pure intelligence" or, as Alfred North Whitehead put it, "The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern