In his spirited attack on what he characterizes as anti-reform forces in math education (“Mathematics and the Pure in Heart,” Feb. 28, 2007), T.C. O’Brien speculates that the British mathematician ...

SINCE The Wit and Wisdom of Whitehead was published, Alfred North Whitehead has died. This does not alter the value of the book, but it does deeply affect the tone in which one speaks of that ...

In an industry packed with really, really smart people, Alfred Whitehead still manages to stand out — witness his side gig as a published astrophysicist. His official charge at Klick is uniting many ...

THEHE are men who cherish what ought to be. There are others who stress what is. The former are moralists, the latter scientists. Alfred North Whitehead was something of both, as a philosopher should ...

“I saw history,” said Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once, “before I read it.” He played games amid relics of the Roman, Saxon and Norman conquests; his father was vicar of a church built by the ...

Alfred Whitehead, 41, of Allentown, died Monday, June 13, 2005. Born in Allentown to George Sr. and Charlie Mae Whitehead, he was the husband of 14 years of Jacquelyn Whitehead. He was employed by ...

THIS volume provides a guide to Whitehead's published writings, an explanatory commentary upon them, and criticisms of the objections to which they may be considered to lie open. It had been hoped ...