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In 1923 Whitehead won a scholarship to Balliol College, [[Oxford University]] where he was tutored by J W Nicholson, who had been a student of Whitehead's uncle A N Whitehead. However, Nicholson's health was poor and Whitehead was tutored frequently by H Newboult at Merton College.

In 1923 Whitehead won a scholarship to Balliol College, [[Oxford University]] where he was tutored by J W Nicholson, who had been a student of Whitehead's uncle A N Whitehead. However, Nicholson's health was poor and Whitehead was tutored frequently by H Newboult at Merton College.

After gaining a First Class degree in maths, in 1927, Whitehead joined the firm of stockbrokers, Buckmaster and Moore. After one year, Whitehead in 1928 returned to the University of Oxford. There he met Veblen, who was on leave from [[Princeton University]] USA. He attended a seminar which Veblen gave on differential geometry and decided that he would undertake research in that topic. Veblen supported Whitehead's application for a Commonwealth Fellowship to enabled him to study for a Ph.D. at Princeton.

After gaining a First Class degree in maths, in 1927, Whitehead joined the firm of stockbrokers, Buckmaster and Moore. After one year, Whitehead in 1928 returned to the University of Oxford. There he met Veblen, who was on leave from [[Princeton University]] USA. He attended a seminar which Veblen gave on differential geometry and decided that he would undertake research in that topic. Veblen supported Whitehead's application for a Commonwealth Fellowship to enable him to study for a Ph.D. at Princeton.

At Princeton, Whitehead worked mainly on differential geometry although towards the end of his three years there he became interested in topology. He was awarded his doctorate from Princeton in 1932 for a dissertation entitled ''The Representation of Projective Spaces.'' Whitehead's joint work with his doctoral supervisor Veblen led to ''The Foundations of Differential Geometry'' (1932), now considered a classic. It contains the first proper definition of a differentiable manifold.

At Princeton, Whitehead worked mainly on differential geometry although towards the end of his three years there he became interested in topology. He was awarded his doctorate from Princeton in 1932 for a dissertation entitled ''The Representation of Projective Spaces.'' Whitehead's joint work with his doctoral supervisor Veblen led to ''The Foundations of Differential Geometry'' (1932), now considered a classic. It contains the first proper definition of a differentiable manifold.