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People From Ramsgate: Alfred North Whitehead, Brenda Blethyn, Francis Burnand, Elizabeth Fry, Stewart Jackson, Frank Muir, Gary Pallister |
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English |
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Paperback |
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102 |
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2010-05-06 |
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1155641299 |
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Books LLC |
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0.35 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.24 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alfred North Whitehead, Brenda Blethyn, Francis Burnand, Elizabeth Fry, Stewart Jackson, Frank Muir, Gary Pallister, William Joseph Jordan, Frederick Belson, Kirk Shepherd, Francis Holman, Nigel Egg, Mark Weatherly, Elizabeth Gould, Spencer Gore, Charles Coxen, John Marshall, Janet Stancomb-Wills, Matthew Curling Friend, Hilda Margery Clarke, Lilian Braithwaite, George Wright. Excerpt: Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead , OM (15 February 1861 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician who became a philosopher . He wrote on algebra , logic , foundations of mathematics , philosophy of science , physics , metaphysics , and education . He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell . Life Whitehead was born in Ramsgate , Kent , England . Although his grandfather, Thomas Whitehead, was known for having founded Chatham House Academy, a fairly successful school for boys, Alfred North was educated at Sherborne School , Dorset , then considered one of the best public schools in the country. His childhood was described as over-protected, but when at school he excelled in sports, mathematics and was head prefect of his class. In 1880, Whitehead matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge , where he was fourth wrangler and gained his BA in 1884. Elected a fellow of Trinity in 1884, Whitehead would teach and write mathematics at the college until 1910, spending the 1890s writing his Treatise on Universal Algebra (1898) and the 1900s collaborating with his former pupil, Russell, on the first edition of Principia Mathematica . In 1910, he resigned his position at Trinity College to protest the dismissal of a colleague because of an adulterous affair. He also ran afoul of a Cambridge by-law limiting the term of a Senior Lecturer to 25 years. In 1890, White...
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