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Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, [2] which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
It contains within itself the problem of keeping knowledge alive, of preventing it from becoming inert, which is the central problem of all education." — Whitehead 1929 An example for inert knowledge is vocabulary of a foreign language which is available during an exam but not in a real situation of communication.
In an address to the Mathematical Association of England on the importance of education in 1917, Alfred North Whitehead, a philosopher-mathematician, argued that "the basis of invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity," and in contrast to the old proverb "Necessity is the mother of ...
In theoretical physics, Whitehead's theory of gravitation was introduced by the mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead in 1922. [1] While never broadly accepted, at one time it was a scientifically plausible alternative to general relativity. However, after further experimental and theoretical consideration, the theory is now ...
Works by Alfred North Whitehead (2 P) Pages in category "Alfred North Whitehead" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Whitehead took as primitive the topological notion of "contact" between two regions, resulting in a primitive "connection relation" between events. Connection theory C is a first-order theory that distills the first 12 of Whitehead's 31 assumptions [ 9 ] into 6 axioms, C1-C6 . [ 10 ]
Whitehead was the son of the prominent English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, and was known as "North" to his family. [2] He read economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, [3] earning a B.A. in 1913. He then did graduate studies in mechanical engineering at University College London. [4]
Whitehead Research Project The Whitehead Research Project (WRP) is committed to scholarship on the texts, philosophy, and life of Alfred North Whitehead. WRP places Whitehead's thought in dialogue with contemporary philosophies in order to unfold his philosophy of organism and its consequences for our time. Process & Faith