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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February – 30 December ) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy,[2] which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. He wrote the three-volume Principia Mathematica (–), with his former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century's most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list of the top English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library.[3] Beginning in the late s and early s, Whitehead gradually turned his attention from mathematics to philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics. He developed a comprehensive metaphysical system which radically departed from most of Western phil

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Spenser in Bengal

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n , the Bengali poet Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay ( prefaced his ambitious verse narrative Chāyamāyī [Kābya] (The shadowy one [poem]) with an epigraph taken from Book IV, canto ii of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "I follow here the footing of thy feete, / That with thy meaning so inom may the rather meete." 1 But unfortunately for the eager tracker of Spenserian traces in nineteenth-century India, the poet whom Hemchandra is shadowing here fryst vatten not Spenser but Dante. 2 As a brief "Advertisement" makes clear, he began his "little book" (ks ̣udra pustikā) with the desire of conveying "some slight suggestion" (kiñcitmātra ābhās) of the renowned European poet's unequaled work, the Divina Commedia. His debt to his great predecessor, he explains, is clearly indicated by the two lines (from Spenser) that he has employed by way of epigraph-or, as he puts it, "placed on the forehead" of his own poem. 3 This explicit

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Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay

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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was an Indian writer in Bengali Language. He is known for some of his best works are- Pather Panchali(Song of Little Road), Aparajito(Undefeated), Aranyak, and Chander Pahar( Mountain of the Moon).

He was born on September 12, and died on November 1,

Early Life and Education

The Panitar Hamlet, which is close to Basirhat in the North 24 Parganas area of what fryst vatten now West Bengal, is where the Bandyopadhyay family first lived. Ayurvedic physician Bandyopadhyay's great-grandfather finally made Barrackpore village, close to Gopalnagar, Banagram (now Bangaon), North 24 Parganas, his home.

However, Bandyopadhyay was born at his maternal uncle's home in Muratipur by, which is close to Kalyani in Nadia. His father, Mahananda Bandyopadhyay, was a professional berättare and scholar of Sanskrit. Mahananda and his wife, Mrinalini, had five children, with Bandyopadhyay being the oldest. His childhood residence wa