1861-1947

English philosopher and mathematician who made valuable contributions to the fields of pure and applied mathematics. Whitehead was educated at Cambridge and became a professor at the University of London and later at Harvard. He authored several important works, including A Treatise of Universal Algebra (1898), The Principle of Relativity (1922), which challenged Einstein's general theory of relativity, and Process and Reality (1929). He also co-authored the landmark book Principia Mathematica (1910-13) with philosopher Bertrand Russell.