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About Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known for founding process philosophy, a school of thought that influenced work across several fields. His ideas have been taken up in ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. Whitehead’s writing is valued for its broad reach and for the way it connects abstract philosophical ideas with questions in the natural and social sciences.
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