The Fens as Seen from Skates

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. General introduction ix
5. Chronology for Alfred North Whitehead xii
6. Published Works of Alfred North Whitehead xvi
7. Abbreviations of Whitehead Titles xxi
8. Introduction to The Essays and Articles of Alfred North Whitehead, 1886–1916 xxii
9. 1886
10. A Celebrity at Home: The Clerk of the Weather 1
11. Davy Jones 4
12. 1888
13. On the Motion of Viscous Incompressible Fluids 8
14. A Visitation 22
15. Second Approximations to Viscous Fluid Motion 25
16. 1891
17. The Fens as Seen from Skates 35
18. 1896
19. On Ideals: With Reference to the Controversy Concerning the Admission of Women to Degrees in the University 38
20. 1898
21. The Geodesic Geometry of Surfaces in Non-Euclidean Sp 42
22. 1899
23. Sets of Operations in Relation to Groups of Finite Order 87
24. 1901
25. Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part I) 115
26. Memoir on the Algebra of Symbolic Logic (Part II) 138
27. 1902
28. On Cardinal Numbers 156
29. 1903
30. The Logic of Relations, Logical Substitution Groups, and Cardinal Numbers 186
31. 1904
32. Theorems on Cardinal Numbers 207
33. 1905
34. Note in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 210
35. 1906
36. On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World 214
37. Liberty and the Enfranchisement of Women 272
38. 1910
39. Non-Euclidean Geometry (with Bertrand Russell) 275
40. Axioms of Geometry 299
41. The Philosophy of Mathematics 320
42. 1911
43. Mathematics 325
44. The Place of Elementary Mathematics in a Liberal Education 341
45. 1913
46. The Principles of Mathematics in Relation to Elementary Teaching 352
47. Presidential Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association 358
48. 1916
49. Space, Time, and Relativity 368
50. The Aims of Education – A Plea for Reform 387
51. La Théorie Relationniste de L’Espace (The Relational Theory of Space) 401
52. The Organisation of Thought 452
53. Textual Notes 466
54. Bibliography 476
55. Index 487