The youngest of four children of an Anglican vicar, Whitehead (1861-1947) -- one of the most interesting and imaginative scholars of our era -- showed no sign of the genius that he was later in life. As a scholar, his academic interests spanned mathematics, science, and metaphysics, all of which were thoroughly and carefully treated by him with a unique style. His academic career was wide ranging as well. In 1910 he relocated to London where he was a professor and Dean at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. In 1924 he left England for Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a professor of philosophy at Harvard until his retirement in 1937, and Bertrand Russell was one of his students.