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THAT the late Prof. A. N. Whitehead's little volume should establish itself as a classic is not surprising. It was published in the "Home University Library" in 1911, was reprinted about eight times and finally was reset in its present form in 1948 under the supervision of Prof. J. H. C. Whitehead, of Oxford, the late author's nephew. The diagrams have been re-drawn ; but apart from the correction of inaccuracies and typographical errors, the author's original wording has, in no instance, been altered. In the reset edition the number of pages has been reduced from 256 to 191 ; but the text is still quite clear and readable. In seeking to explain the nature of mathematics, it still affords a very interesting account of how mathematics forms the background of all science.
An Introduction to Mathematics
By Dr. A. N. Whitehead. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, No. 18.) Twelfth impression. Pp. v + 192. (London: Oxford University Press, 1948). 5s. net.
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An Introduction to Mathematics. Nature 163, 623 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163623c0
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