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).