Bertrand Russell

About the author

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, logician, and mathematician whose work reshaped modern thought. A founder of analytic philosophy alongside G. E.

Moore, Gottlob Frege, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, he co-wrote Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead, a landmark attempt to ground all mathematics in logic. His article "On Denoting" became a paradigm of philosophical method. A committed pacifist, he was imprisoned during the First World War and later became an outspoken advocate for nuclear disarmament.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.