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Alfred Whitehead
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1. Alfred Whitehead
Alfred Whitehead (English mathematician and philosopher) is known for his philosophical ideas of "process philosophy".

... there is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for the world around us. Whitehead

These ideas found their way into other fields such as "process theology".

His monumental work Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), with Bertrand Russell, attempted to use set theory and mathematical logic to define mathematics such that it could be automated. In 1931, Gödel showed that this cannot be done.

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2. Principia Mathematica
Whitehead and Russell published their monumental work Principia Mathematica in which they attempted to put mathematics on a logical basis using arithmetic defined using set theory. The appears problems with their theory before it was even published.

Gödel later proved that what they wanted to do, specify a formal symbol system (that included arithmetic) that was both complete and consistent was not possible.

Part of their attempted fixes were using a theory of "types" as in "typed sets". This did not resolve the paradox named the "Russell Paradox". Similar issues appear to be in Whitehead's ideas that became known as "process theology" in that one can use it to show anything true or false as desired.

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