Word: whitehead
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ALTHOUGH a scientific cosmology in not easily comprehended by the layman interested in the interdependence of the instruments and the methods of science. Professor Whitehead constructs his metaphysical explanation more vividly than might be supposed. "Science and the Modern World," which consists of an amplification of the Lowell Lectures for 1925, is meant for those who are interested in the readjustment of the philosophy that "builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone and destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches...
...collaboration with Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard, under whom he studied mathematics at Cambridge University, England, Russell wrote the "Principia Mathematics", a work advancing the proposition that logic and mathematics, can be united into a single science...
...student at Cambridge University, England, Russell studied mathematics under Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard. Later he became an instructor at Cambridge and collaborated with Professor Whitehead in writing "Principia Mathematical", three volumes of which have been published. In spite of its title this work is a treatise of logic as well as mathematics, and advances the theory that mathematics and logic can be united in a single science...
...Associates of Lowell House are Alfred North Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, Edward Kenard Rand '94, Professor of Latin, Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History, Archibald Thompson Davison '05, Professor of Music, Robert Pierpont Blake, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Widener Library, and Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...
...bridge-players of the U. S. met in fours last week to play for the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S. Lenz was sick and could not play, but Wilbur C. Whitehead was there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant for something beside the trophy at stake...