Word: mathematica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought praise for the man from the ends of the earth and deep regret at his leaving. Before his Harvard appointment he taught at Cambridge University and the University of London. With Albert Einstein he did considerable work in the mathematical field, and he is the author of "Principal Mathematica" and "The Principle of Relativity...
...taught at Cambridge University, and the University of London until his appointment here. He and Albert Einstein did considerable work together in the mathematical field, and Whitehead is the author of "Principia Mathematica," and the "Principle of Relativity." He was called one of "the three real persons of genius in the world today," by Gertrude Stein. The other two were Pieassa and Gertrude Stein...
...ambitious student launched into a technical comparison of some of Einstein's mathematical theories with "Principia Mathematica," a joint work of Alfred N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, and Bernard Russell...
...almost unnecessary to repeat the world's praises. His "Principal Mathematica" and "Process and Reality", among other works of contemporary literature that have come from his pen, have made a place for him beside Plato and Aristotle in the hall of philosophical fame. His attack of bifurcation, his "eternal entities", his consumation of a union between science and philosophy--to mention briefly but a few of his mental activities--will always be remembered...
...been at Harvard since 1924, when he transferred from the University of London; before that he was an undergraduate and lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has been teaching Philosophy 3, on the function of reason, and Philosophy 3b, on cosmologies ancient and modern. Among his works are "Principia Mathematica", "Science and the Modern World", and "Process and Reality...