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Professor Whitehead was perhaps best known for two early works, written before his arrival in Cambridge--"A Treatise on Universal Algebra," (1898), and "Principia Mathematics," (1910), in which he collaborated with is friend and former pupil Bertrand Russell. In the latter, a monumental three-volume opus, the authors cut one of the major tasks of philosophy in half by demonstrating that there is a definite connection between pure mathematics and logic...
Nebraska put in a claim last week to having the oldest inhabitants of the U.S. Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, of the University of Nebraska, told of finding ancient camp sites which may have been human hangouts before the last glacial advance...
Bell-Ringer. Whitehead began his teaching career 62 years ago as a mathematician at Cambridge. He and his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, worked together for nine years on their Principia Mathematica, now on the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books, but strictly for specialists. Whitehead later became professor of mathematics at the University of London, quit (at 63) when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern...
...Among them: Philosopher Bertrand Russell; London Publisher Lord Lay ton; the Very Reverend W. .R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's; the Right Reverend Edward Ellis, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham...
Others in the cast include: S. J. Gilman, Jr. '44 as Bertrand de Poulanger, Clyde Eagleton '48 as the Steward, Robert P. Atkinson '50 as Gilles de Rais, Whitley Y. Dresser '50 as Captain La Hire, David F. Wheeler '47 as D'Estivet, Richard Robbins '50 as De Courcelles, Thomas H. Philips '47 as the Executioner, Edward T. Kenyon '50 as Gentleman of 1920, and Robert E. Rockman '46 as Due de Tremouille...