Question: Who was Whitehead's mother?
Answer: Maria Sarah Whitehead, formerly Maria Sarah Buckmaster

Question: Where was Alfred North Whitehead born? 
Answer: Ramsgate, Kent, England

Question: What year was Whitehead born?
Answer: 1861

Question: What was Whitehead's father's profession?
Answer: minister and schoolmaster

Question: What was Whitehead's mother's name?
Answer: Maria Sarah Whitehead,

Question: What was Whitehead's wife's name?
Answer: Evelyn

Question: In which educational system was Whitehead employed in the late 1910s?
Answer: University of London system

Question: What was Whitehead's title at the University of London in late 1918?
Answer: Dean of the Faculty of Science

Question: What was Whitehead's last position before he traveled to America?
Answer: chairman of the Senate's Academic (leadership) Council

Question: In which year did Whitehead relocate to America?
Answer: 1924

Question: What degree program did Whitehead contribute to establishing at University of London?
Answer: Bachelor of Science

Question: When did Whitehead accept administrative positions?
Answer: 1918

Question: What was he elected at the University of London?
Answer: Dean of the Faculty of Science

Question: Where did Whitehead accept administrative positions?
Answer: University of London

Question: When did Whitehead go to America?
Answer: 1924

Question: Who authored Whitehead's biography that is considered to be the most reliable description of Whitehead's life?
Answer: Victor Lowe

Question: Why was no Nachlass left behind after Whitehead's death?
Answer: his family carried out his instructions that all of his papers be destroyed after his death

Question: What was Whitehead's opinion on privacy?
Answer: almost fanatical belief in the right to privacy

Question: What did the author of Whitehead's biography comment on the first page regarding the difficulty of obtaining information about Whitehead?
Answer: "No professional biographer in his right mind would touch him."

Question: How many volumes is the biography of Whitehead?
Answer: two

Question: Who wrote the biography of Whitehead?
Answer: Victor Lowe

Question: What was Whitehead's wish upon his death for his family?
Answer: all of his papers be destroyed after his death.

Question: What did Whitehead believe in so profusely that it was difficult to write a biography on him?
Answer: right to privacy

Question: What was Whitehead's first published book on mathematics?
Answer: A Treatise on Universal Algebra

Question: With what mathematician and philosopher did Whitehead collaborate to write Principia Mathematica?
Answer: Bertrand Russell

Question: Who was the intended audience of Whitehead's first two mathematics books?
Answer: professional mathematicians

Question: What was Whitehead's final book on mathematics?
Answer: An Introduction to Mathematics

Question: What is the significance of Principia Mathematica currently?
Answer: regarded as one of the most important works in mathematical logic of the 20th century

Question: What did Whitehead publish numerous articles about?
Answer: mathematics

Question: How many books on mathematics did Whitehead write?
Answer: three

Question: Who co-wrote Principia Mathematica with Whitehead?
Answer: Bertrand Russell

Question: Which of Whitehead's books is known as one of the most important works in mathematical logical?
Answer: Principia Mathematica

Question: When did Whitehead write his first book? 
Answer: 1898

Question: What did Lie algebras and hyperbolic quaternions demonstrate a need for?
Answer: the need to expand algebraic structures beyond the associatively multiplicative class

Question: How did Alexander Macfarlane summarize the relationship between different methods in "A Treatise on Algebra" in his review?
Answer: comparative study of their several structures

Question: What was G.B. Matthew's opinion of "A Treatise on Algebra"?
Answer: "It possesses a unity of design which is really remarkable, considering the variety of its themes."

Question: Lie algebras and hypobolic quanternions drew attention to the need for what?
Answer: expand algebraic structures

Question: What did reviewer GB Mathews say algebraic structures possessed? 
Answer: unity of design

Question: Reviewer Alexander Macfarlane believed that the main idea of the work is a comparative study of what?
Answer: several structures

Question: How long did Whitehead and Russell expect to spend creating Principia Mathematica?
Answer: a year

Question: How long did it actually take to complete Principia Mathematica? 
Answer: ten years

Question: Why was there a funding shortfall for the publishing of Princpia Mathematica? 
Answer: the three-volume work was so massive (more than 2,000 pages) and its audience so narrow (professional mathematicians)

Question: Who supplied the funding to cover the shortfall?
Answer: 00 of which was paid by Cambridge University Press, 200 by the Royal Society of London, and 50 apiece by Whitehead and Russell

Question: How prevalent is Principia Mathematica today?
Answer: today there is likely no major academic library in the world which does not hold a copy of Principia Mathematica

Question: How long did Whitehead and Russell think it would take them to complete Principia Mathematica?
Answer: a year

Question: How long did it actually take Whitehead and Russell to complete Principia Mathematica?
Answer: ten years

Question: How many volumes was Principia Mathematica?
Answer: three

Question: How many pages was Principia Mathematica?
Answer: 2,000

Question: Who paid to publish Principia Mathematica?
Answer: Cambridge University Press

Question: What is the general opinion of the difficulty level of Whitehead's work in philosophy?
Answer: generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon

Question: What lectures did Whitehead present in 1927-28?
Answer: Gifford lectures

Question: Under what name were those lectures later published?
Answer: Process and Reality

Question: Who also struggled to follow Whitehead's writings?
Answer: professional philosophers

Question: Following Arthur Eddington's lectures, what did Whitehead  publish?
Answer: Process and Reality

Question: When did Whitehead delivery the Gifford lectures?
Answer: 1927–28

Question: In all of the western canon, what is Whitehead's work considered?
Answer: the most difficult to understand

Question: What affect did Matthews' opinion of the difficulty of Whitehead's works have on his interest in them?
Answer: Mathews' frustration with Whitehead's books did not negatively affect his interest

Question: How did many philosophers and theologians at Chicago's Divinity School view Whitehead's work?
Answer: perceived the importance of what Whitehead was doing without fully grasping all of the details and implications

Question: What expert on Whitehead delivered a lecture at the school to explain Whitehead's ideas?
Answer: Henry Nelson Wieman

Question: What was the result of that lecture?
Answer: Wieman's lecture was so brilliant that he was promptly hired to the faculty and taught there for twenty years

Question: Who was frustrated in Whitehead's books but still interested?
Answer: Mathews

Question: What school recognized the importance of Whitehead's work?
Answer: Chicago's Divinity School

Question: When was Henry Nelson Wieman invited to the Chicago Divinity school?
Answer: 1927

Question: Who was invited to the Chicago Divinity school as one of Whitehead's only experts?
Answer: Henry Nelson Wieman

Question: What happened after Henry Nelson Wieman gave a lecture about Whitehead?
Answer: hired

Question: How has "Process and Reality" been described? 
Answer: "arguably the most impressive single metaphysical text of the twentieth century,"