Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was a Cambridge mathematician who wrote Principia Mathematica with his former pupil Russell, moved to London to teach applied mathematics and think about education, and at sixty-three accepted a chair in philosophy at Harvard, where he built the process metaphysics of Science and the Modern World and Process and Reality. The Aims of Education collects his addresses to teachers, and Adventures of Ideas is the summary of his thought a general reader can follow. He was among the most learned and least dogmatic philosophers of his century, and the lists assign him as the last of the great system builders.