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Twin Sisters. The first of Whitehead's 22 books (A Treatise on Universal Algebra) was published in 1898; his final volume (Essays in Science and Philosophy) appeared last year (TIME, May 12). After a nine-year collaboration with his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, Whitehead wrote the monumental Principia Mathematica (1910). This book approached mathematics not as a science of magnitude but as a science of deduction; it undertook to replace two existing sciences-logic and mathematics-by one new science, mathematical logic. Because Whitehead felt that "conventional English is the twin sister to barren thought" and that words...
...remaining members of the permanent class committee, listed according to the number of votes they polled, include Joseph Anthony Lewis, of New York City and Lowell House; Chester Middlebrook Pierce, of Glen Cove, New York and Lowell House; John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., of Dorchester; Harry Peter Haveles, of Roxbury; Jay Lawrence Fialkow, of Brookline and Adams House; Robert Stanley Leventhal, of Newton and Adams House...
Professor Whitehead was perhaps best known for two early works, written before his arrival in Cambridge--"A Treatise on Universal Algebra," (1898), and "Principia Mathematics," (1910), in which he collaborated with is friend and former pupil Bertrand Russell. In the latter, a monumental three-volume opus, the authors cut one of the major tasks of philosophy in half by demonstrating that there is a definite connection between pure mathematics and logic...
Nebraska put in a claim last week to having the oldest inhabitants of the U.S. Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, of the University of Nebraska, told of finding ancient camp sites which may have been human hangouts before the last glacial advance...
Bell-Ringer. Whitehead began his teaching career 62 years ago as a mathematician at Cambridge. He and his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, worked together for nine years on their Principia Mathematica, now on the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books, but strictly for specialists. Whitehead later became professor of mathematics at the University of London, quit (at 63) when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern...