Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947
Birthday: February 15
Death: December 30
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
source: Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.4, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]
topic: Ontology, Logic, Certainty, Transitory