Alfred Whitehead

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  • The Early Days

    The Early Days
    February 15th, 1861 in Kent, England Alfred North Whitehead was born. When he was a child he was schooled at home because his parents thought he was to fragile to go to public school. He eventually went on to public school when he was 14 and had a incredible mathematical ability. In 1879 he began testing for Trinity college Cambridge a year early and began schooling in 1880 with a 50 euro scholarship.

  • Cambridge

    Cambridge
    In 1884 Alfred Whitehead became a Fellow of Trinity and taught at Cambridge from 1884 through 1910. 1903 he was accepted as Fellow of the Royal Society. Feeling trapped and needing a change in his life he resigned as professor at Cambridge and began working on a project with fellow college Bertrand Russell called "Principia Mathematica", while this book at first was not very popular it has been one his most recognized books in his life time.

  • Imperial College

    Imperial College
    After resigning from Cambridge Alfred was unemployed and had moved from Kent to London, where he found a position as professor of applied mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. It was here when he got his philosophical breakthrough and wrote three books well known in the science community: "An Enquiry into the Principles of Natural Knowledge, 1919" " The Concept of Nature, 1920" and " The Principle of Relativity with Applications to physical Science, 1922"

  • Harvard

    1924 after being forced to retire in two years at the Imperial college he had accepted and offer to be a professor of philosophy At Harvard University where he would finish off a inspiring philosophical era. Once again writing two more books that would change philosophy forever: "Process and Reality, 1929" and "Adventures of Ideas, 1933" before retiring from Harvard in 1937. https://youtu.be/K7768HfQ8U0

  • Later Days

    1945 Alfred North Whitehead was awarded the Order of Merit becoming a very prestigious philosopher and mathematician. When he died on December 30th, 1947, in his will he had told wife Evelyn to burn all of his unpublished work because he wanted to be judged on his published work alone.