Bertrand Russell
Also known as Bertrand Arthur William Russell
English philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970); Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950.
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- Bertrand Russell was an English mathematician and philosopher and a founder of analytic philosophy.
- With Alfred North Whitehead he wrote Principia Mathematica, an attempt to reduce mathematics to logic.
- He was a pacifist and was imprisoned in 1918 for opposing the First World War.
- He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.
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- Lived
- 18 May 1872 to 2 February 1970; died at Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales1
- Title
- 3rd Earl Russell; grandson of the prime minister John Russell1
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge; first-class degree in mathematics, 18931
- Works
- The Principles of Mathematics (1903); Principia Mathematica, with Whitehead; A History of Western Philosophy (1945)1
- Prison
- Six months in Brixton Prison, 1918, for an anti-war lecture1
- Honours
- Order of Merit, 1949; Nobel Prize in Literature, 19501
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