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Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge
where he earned his BA in mathematics. From there he worked at Trinity teaching mathematics and physics. He spent the 1890's writing his Treatise on Universal Algebra and in the 1900s, his first edition of Principia Mathematica. -
Alfred resigned from Cambridge
and moved to London where he accepted the position of applied mathematics at University College London. He holds several positions in mathematics and mechanics before being elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1918. A year later he became part of the universities Senate as well as Chairman of Academic Leadership. With these roles, he was able to lobby for a new history of Science department and help establish an option for degrees in Science. -
Geometry of Space
Alfred attempted to reconstruct the geometry of space and time. He believed one volume may contain another similar to Russian dolls for example; one contained in another but idealized to even smaller dolls. He even went s far as to challenge Einstein. This was his metaphysical theory. All of our choices and actions have consequences for the world around us. Isn't that extremely true today especially with pollution and waste! -
Concepts of Nature
Alfred produced this book while living in the US and working at Harvard University. -
In the end for Whitehead
Whitehead's view has now been rendered obsolete, with the discovery of gravitational waves, phenomena observed locally that largely violate the kind of local flatness of space that Whitehead assumes. Link text
