Bertrand Russell
Introduction
Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born May 15th 1872 in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales and he died February 2nd 1970 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, Wales. He was a British philosopher, mathematician, writer and social critic. He was best known for his work in mathematics and philosophy. During his lifetime he made contributions to education, history, political theory, and religious studies. He had written many things relating to the sciences as well as humanities. After being dismissed from Trinity College in Cambridge and City College in New York he was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Russell was also known for his anti-war and anti-nuclear protests. Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of ninety seven in 1970. His contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century.
He had a long and productive life in which he published more than seventy books and around 2,000 articles, he was married four times and was involved in many public controversies. His childhood years were full of tragedy and bereavement. By the time he was six years old his sister his parents and his grandfather had all died. His brother Frank and him were taken care of by their grandmother. He was home schooled as a child and he regretted being isolated from other children. One of his main interests was mathematics at which he excelled in. The secure foundation of math led him to imagine that all knowledge could be based on such secure foundations. His earliest philosophical work was written during his teen years and records the skeptical doubts that led hi ...