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Whitehead, Alfred (1861-1947)
    

English mathematician and philosopher who was interested in the logical basis of mathematics. With Bertrand Russell, he published Principia Mathematica in which mathematics was built up from symbolic logic.

Russell (Bertrand)


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References

Whitehead, A. N. The Axioms of Projective Geometry. New York: Hafner, 1960.

Whitehead, A. N. An Introduction to Mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1948.

Whitehead, A. N. A Philosopher Looks at Science. Irvington Publishers.

Whitehead, A. N. Science and the Modern World.

Whitehead, A. N. and Russell, B. Principia Mathematica, 2nd ed. London: Cambridge University Press, 1925.







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