Bertrand Russel

Russell was a philosopher, logician, essayist, noble prize winner and social critic. He is known as one of the founders of analytic philosophy. He is accredited with being one of the most important logicians of the 20th century. His most influential contributions are his beliefs that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic and his theory of definite description and logical atomism.

He used first-order logic to show how a broad range of denoting phrases could be changed to predicates and quantified variables. He is also remembered for his

When his brother died in 1931 he became the 3rd Earl of the Russell family. In 1949 he was awarded the Order of Merit by King George VI. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 and was named "the champion of humanity and freedom of thought." Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97 in 1970.

Throughout his life he made many notable contributions in a wide range of subjects. His writings included topics of education, ethics, politics, history, religion and popular science. He achieved fame with his first major work, The Principles of Mathematics (1902). He worked with the British philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead for eight years to compose a three volume work called Principia Mathematica (1910-1913). It showed that mathematics can be stated in terms of general logic. His next famous work was, The Problems of Philosophy (1912). After a visit to Russia he expressed his political views against their form of socialism in his book Practice and Theory of Bolshevism. He authore

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