He grew up in a family which was. In the early 1920s whitehead was clearly the most distinguished figure in the philosophy of science who was writing in english. Alfred was ordained in 1860 as an anglican priest, and quickly rose to prominence in the local church.
Alfred north whitehead's father, also. Alfred north whitehead was born on february 15, 1861, at ramsgate england. Whitehead excelled in mathematics, grew to love the poetry of wordsworth and shelley, and in his last year acted as head of the school and captain of games.
The whitehead research project website is dedicated to the research of, and scholarship on, the texts, philosophy and life of alfred north whitehead. He created the philosophical school known as process. In his autobiographical reminiscences, alfred north whitehead writes affectionately of. Whitehead was an englishman by birth and a mathematician by formal education.