Mathematician:Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Mathematician
British philosopher, mathematician and logician.

Best known for his co-authorship with of, published from $1910$.

Nationality
Welsh

History

 * Born: 18 May 1872, Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales
 * 1890–4: Undergraduate at
 * 1894: Married
 * 1895: Elected Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
 * 1900: Attended International Congress of Philosophy, Paris
 * 1908: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
 * 1908: Appointed Lecturer in the principles of mathematics,
 * 1913: Met
 * 1914: Visiting Professor, Harvard University
 * 1916: Fined £100 and deprived of his lectureship at for writing a leaﬂet in defence of an imprisoned conscientious objector
 * 1918: Imprisoned for anti-war article
 * 1920: Visited Russia
 * 1920–1: Visited China
 * 1921: Marriage to Alys Russell dissolved
 * 1921: Married
 * 1927: Founded Beacon Hill progressive school with
 * 1935: Marriage to Dora Russell dissolved
 * 1936: Married
 * 1938–44: Lived in U.S.A.
 * 1944: Appointed Lecturer at
 * 1950: Awarded Order of Merit
 * 1950: Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
 * 1952: Marriage to Patricia Spence dissolved
 * 1952: Married
 * 1956: Moved to North Wales
 * 1957: Attended Pugwash Conference in Austria
 * 1957: Helped to launch Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
 * 1960: Supported civil disobedience and resigned from C.N.D.
 * 1961: Imprisoned brieﬂy for taking part in demonstration organized by Committee of 100
 * 1963: Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and Atlantic Peace Foundation set up
 * 1965: Resigned from Labour Party in protest against Government's Foreign Policy.
 * 1966: First meeting of International War Crimes Tribunal
 * Died: 2 Feb 1970, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, Wales

Theorems

 * Russell's Paradox
 * Russell Class

Publications

 * 1903:
 * 1938:


 * , in which the notation $\paren x$ was coined for the universal quantifier.
 * 1910 -- 1913: (with )
 * 1910: (with )
 * 1912: (with )
 * 1913: (with )
 * 1913: The Problems of Philosophy
 * 1914: Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientiﬁc Method in Philosophy (Lowell Lectures)
 * 1917: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
 * 1919:
 * 1919:
 * 1921: The Analysis of Mind
 * 1924: Logical Atomism
 * 1927: The Analysis of Matter
 * 1928: Sceptical Essays
 * 1929: Marriage and Morals
 * 1931: The Scientiﬁc Outlook
 * 1940: An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth
 * 1945: A History of Western Philosophy
 * 1944: My Mental Development and Reply to Criticism (in The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, ed. )
 * 1948: Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
 * 1949: Authority and the Individual (first of the Reith Lectures)
 * 1954: Man's Peril (B.B.C. broadcast on nuclear warfare)
 * 1955: Man's Peril (manifesto, based on the above broadcast)
 * 1959: My Philosophical Development
 * 1967: War Crimes in Vietnam
 * 1967: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Vol I
 * 1968: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Vol II
 * 1969: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Vol III

Notable Quotes

 * The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.


 * Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.


 * Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is of which it is supposed to be true ... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
 * -- Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1917)


 * To create a healthy philosophy, you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
 * in a lecture (1935)
 * -- Quoted in : They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say


 * There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone and watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.
 * from his autobiography
 * -- Quoted in : Preface

Also known as
Also known as:
 * the 3rd Earl Russell
 * Lord Bertrand Arthur William Russell.