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Alfred North Whitehead, world reknowned philosopher and mathematician and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, will give the annual Ingersoll lecture on the Immortality of Man at the Divinity School next April, it was announced yesterday...
Before coming to Harvard in 1924, Professor Whitehead taught mathematics at the University of London and Trinity College in England...
...teachers, the parents of City College students, hundreds of educators, philosophers and clergymen, among them John Dewey, University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, Smith's President-emeritus William Allan Neilson, Harvard's Professors Alfred North Whitehead and Harlow Shapley, Princeton's Dean Christian Gauss. In City College's Great Hall, 1,200 undergraduates cheered famed Philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen as he said: "Not a single college authority, parent or teacher in any institution where Russell has taught has complained of the corrupting influence...
...Russell has been invited to teach courses in mathematics and logic, and not to expound his own personal ethics. With Professor Whitehead, one of the greatest logicians of our day, he has pushed far forward into the tortuous ways of logical analysis. A colorful, ruggedly independent thinker, prevented by his government from accepting a post proferred by Harvard, he was thrown into an English jail in 1918 as a conscientious objector. There he wrote his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, cutting new paths into unexplored realms. Characteristically, he studied Russian Communism on the spot. For some time he lectured at Peking...
Russell is the author of numerous works in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, social and political, problems, and science; one of his best known books is "Principia Mathematica" written in 1910 in collaboration with Alfred North Whitehead, now professor of Philosophy, Emeritus...