Bertrand Russell
Nacido: May 18, 1872 – Trellech, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician whose work shaped analytic philosophy and modern logic. Best known for coauthoring Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead and for books such as The Problems of Philosophy, he won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature and was a prominent public intellectual and peace activist.
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Bertrand Russell was born on May 18, 1872, into an aristocratic British family, but his early life was marked less by privilege than by loss. Orphaned young, he was raised largely by his grandmother at Pembroke Lodge, where strict moral seriousness and intellectual discipline shaped him. A lonely childhood pushed him inward, toward mathematics, books, and habits of exact thought. At Trinity College, Cambridge, he found the setting that defined his career. There he moved away from the dominant idealism of the day and toward logic, analysis, and the conviction that philosophy should seek clarity rather than grand obscurity.
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"Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, and social reformer, a founding figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy"
— Britannica
"Bertrand Russell is now and always will be chiefly remembered by mathematicians for his paradox and his creation of the theory of types"
— R. O. Gandy
"Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings"
— Sidney Hook
"Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic"
— Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"The Swedish Academy wishes to honour Bertrand Russell as one of our time’s brilliant spokesmen of rationality and humanity"
— Swedish Academy
"Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man"
— A. J. Ayer
"Bertrand Russell’s claim to be remembered by history rests securely on his work in mathematical and symbolic logic and in philosophy"
— The Times
"Dear Professor Bertrand Russell – We salute you as one of the greatest and most influential thinkers of our age"
— Robin Fåhraeus
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