Author:Alfred North Whitehead
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English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education.
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "A. N. W."
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "A. N. W."
Works[edit]
- A Treatise on Universal Algebra with Applications, 1898 (external scan)
- The Axioms of Projective Geometry, 1906 (external scan)
- Principia Mathematica (with Bertrand Russell), 1910–1913 (transcription project), (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
- An Introduction to Mathematics, 1911 (external scan)
- The Organization of Thought Educational and Scientific, 1917 (external scan)
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, 1919 (transcription project)
- The Concept of Nature, 1920, Lectures delivered at Trinity College. (external scan)
- The rhythm of education, 1922 short work (external scan)
- The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science., 1922 (external scan)
- Science And The Modern World, 1925 (external scan)
- Symbolism Its Meaning And Effect, 1927 (external scan)
- Religion In The Making, 1927 (external scan)
- The Function Of Reason, 1929 (external scan)
- The aims of education & other essays, 1929 (external scan)
- Process and reality, an essay in cosmology, 1929 (external scan)
- Adventures Of Ideas, 1933 (external scan)
- Philosophical essays for Alfred North Whitehead, 1936 (external scan)
- Modes of thought, 1938 (external scan)
- Aspects of freedom in Freedom, its meaning by Ruth Nanda Anshen, 1940 (external scan)
Journal Articles[edit]
- On Cardinal Numbers (1920) in American Journal of Mathematics. (transcription project)
- "Prefatory note to Space and Time: An Essay in the Foundations of Physics" in Mind, 33 (129) (January, 1924)
Contributions to EB1911[edit]
- "Geometry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Part VI. Non-Euclidean Geometry) with Bertrand Russell; and (Part VII. Axioms of Geometry)
- "Mathematics," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Works about Whitehead[edit]
- Whitehead's philosophy of organism by Dorothy Mary Emmet, 1932 (external scan)
- The philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead by Paul Arthur Schilpp, 1941 (external scan)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.
The longest-living author of these works died in 1947, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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