Author:Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead
(1861–1947)

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English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education.

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "A. N. W."

Works

A Treatise on Universal Algebra with Applications, 1898 (external scan)
The Axioms of Projective Geometry, 1906 (external scan)
Principia Mathematica (with Bertrand Russell), 1910–1913 (transcription project), (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
An Introduction to Mathematics, 1911 (external scan)
The Organisation of Thought: Educational and Scientific, 1917 (transcription project)
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, 1919 (transcription project)
The Concept of Nature, 1920 (transcription project)
The Rhythm of Education, 1922
The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science., 1922 (external scan)
Science and the Modern World, 1925 (transcription project)
Religion in the Making, 1926 (transcription project)
Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect, 1927
The Function of Reason, 1929
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, 1929 (external scan)
The Aims of Education and Other Essays, 1929 (external scan)
Adventures of Ideas, 1933 (transcription project)
Nature and Life, 1934
Modes of Thought, 1938 (external scan)
‘Aspects of Freedom’ in Ruth Nanda Anshen (ed.), Freedom: Its Meaning, 1940 (external scan)
Essays in Science and Philosophy, 1948 (transcription project)

Journal Articles

On Cardinal Numbers (1920) in American Journal of Mathematics. (transcription project)
"Prefatory note to Space and Time: An Essay in the Foundations of Physics" in Mind, 33 (129) (January, 1924)

Contributions to EB1911

"Geometry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Part VI. Non-Euclidean Geometry) with Bertrand Russell; and (Part VII. Axioms of Geometry)
"Mathematics," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Others

Philosophical Essays for Alfred North Whitehead, 1936 (external scan)

Works about Whitehead

Whitehead's philosophy of organism by Dorothy Mary Emmet, 1932 (external scan)
The philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead by Paul Arthur Schilpp, 1941 (external scan)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1947, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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