Process Studies

Volume 39, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2010

Ronny Desmet
Pages 225-263

Principia Mathematica Centenary

On the occasion of the centenary of the publication of the first volume of Principia Mathematica, this article aims to shed some light on Whitehead’s philosophy of mathematics, to differentiate Whitehead’s version of logicism from Russell’s, and to show the unity of Whitehead’s thought. These aims rely on Whitehead’s basic insight that mathematics is the study of pattern.