"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it."

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About Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician and philosopher known for co-authoring Principia Mathematica and for developing process philosophy. He later taught at Harvard University. He died in 1947.

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