Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell. (1872 - 1970). British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist, science educator, and Nobel laureate.

Noteworthy

  • Nobel.
  • Set theory.
  • Analytic philosophy.
  • Formal Systems.
  • Scientific Method.
  • Anti-idealism.
  • With his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the development of classical logic and a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic (see Logicism).

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