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 Wittgenstein
 * 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.
 * -- 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

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