| − | '''Alfred North Whitehead''' (February 2, 1861 – 1947) was an English mathematician, thinker, publicist, graduate of ''‘Trinity college’'' in [[Cambridge]], professor of applied mathematics and mechanics at London University College and professor of philosophy at the American Harvard University. He became known as co-author, with [[Bertrand Russell]], of the ''Principia Mathematica'', regarded by C.I. Lewis as the ''“intellectual equivalent of Egyptian pyramids.”'' Whitehead was one of few people who were simultaneously both members of English Academy and fellows of the Royal Society of London. | + | '''Alfred North Whitehead''' (February 2, 1861 – 1947) was an English mathematician, thinker, publicist, graduate of Trinity college in [[Cambridge]], professor of applied mathematics and mechanics at London University College and professor of philosophy at the American Harvard University. He became known as co-author, with [[Bertrand Russell]], of the ''Principia Mathematica'', regarded by C.I. Lewis as the ''“intellectual equivalent of Egyptian pyramids.”'' Whitehead was one of few people who were simultaneously both members of English Academy and fellows of the Royal Society of London. |
| | Among his pupils was also [[Herbert Dingle]], a philosopher and historian of science:<ref name="Andrle">{{cite book | | Among his pupils was also [[Herbert Dingle]], a philosopher and historian of science:<ref name="Andrle">{{cite book |