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Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and Nobel laureate in Literature (1950) whose Principia Mathematica (1910–1913, with A. N. Whitehead) attempted to ground all of mathematics in formal logic. He was a founding figure of analytic philosophy, a pioneering philosopher of language, and a lifelong campaigner for pacifism, nuclear disarmament, and rational secularism. His popular writings, including A History of Western Philosophy (1945), brought rigorous philosophical thought to a mass readership.

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Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and Nobel laureate in Literature (1950) whose Principia Mathematica (1910–1913, with A. N. Whitehead) attempted to ground all of mathematics in formal logic. He was a founding figure of analytic philosophy, a pioneering philosopher of language, and a lifelong campaigner for pacifism, nuclear disarmament, and rational secularism. His popular writings, including A History of Western Philosophy (1945), brought rigorous philosophical thought to a mass readership.

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1870s
1872

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Born in Trellech, Wales

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