Bertrand Russell
18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual who made foundational contributions to analytic philosophy and mathematical logic. Co-author of Principia Mathematica, he was also a prominent social critic and anti-war activist, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.
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Life events
Bertrand Russell was born into an aristocratic British family.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRussell studied mathematics and moral sciences at Cambridge.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRussell set out his logicist program to derive mathematics from logic.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWith Alfred North Whitehead, Russell published a landmark three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRussell was jailed for six months for his pacifist opposition to World War I.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRussell received the Nobel Prize in recognition of his varied and significant writings.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRussell issued a manifesto with Albert Einstein warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRussell died of influenza at his home in Wales.
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