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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.
Whitehead's theory of extension was concerned with the spatio-temporal features of his occasions of experience. Fundamental to both Newtonian and to quantum theoretical mechanics is the concept of momentum.
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.
Whitehead's theory of extension concerns the spatio-temporal features of his occasions of experience. Fundamental to both Newtonian and to quantum theoretical mechanics is the concept of velocity. The measurement of a velocity requires a finite spatiotemporal extent.
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] C is a proper fragment of the theories proposed by Clarke, [11] who noted their mereological character. Theories that, like C, feature both inclusion and topological primitives, are called mereotopologies.
The entry Whitehead's point-free geometry includes two contemporary treatments of Whitehead's theories, due to Giangiacomo Gerla, each different from the theory set out in the next section. Although mereotopology is a mathematical theory, we owe its subsequent development to logicians and theoretical computer scientists.
Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead's (1861–1947) process philosophy, but most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000), John B. Cobb (b. 1925), and Eugene H. Peters (1929–1983). Process theology and process philosophy are collectively referred to as "process thought".
The Principia Mathematica (often abbreviated PM) is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics written by the mathematician–philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910, 1912, and 1913.