ABSTRACT
Alfred North Whitehead, known mainly as a mathematician and philosopher, was one of the most widely read, most quoted, and least understood philosophers of the twentieth century. The focus of Whitehead's later work, after 1925, is on metaphysics and the development of a cosmological doctrine wherein reality is a process in time. On 16 December 1890, when he was 29, Alfred North Whitehead married Evelyn Wade. Whitehead is most widely known for his collaboration with Bertrand Russell on the three large volumes of Principia Mathematica published in 1910, 1912 and 1913. Russell had been Whitehead's pupil at Cambridge and was 13 years his junior. Russell and Whitehead began their collaboration shortly after 1900. Whitehead criticized the mechanistic view of reality and Newtonian physics that portrayed atoms that were moved locally by other particles but that were otherwise unmoved. Whitehead attempted to reconcile the differences between science and human experience.
