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Biography

Name: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Variant Name: Russell, 3d Earl
Birth Date: May 18, 1872
Death Date: February 2, 1970
Place of Birth: Ravenscroft, Wales
Place of Death: Penrhyndendraeth, Wales
Nationality: Welsh
Gender: Male
Occupations: mathematician, philosopher

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Biography of Bertrand Arthur William Russell
1,380 words, approx. 5 pages
The Welsh mathematician, philosopher, and social reformer Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl Russell (1872-1970), made original and decisive contributions to logic and mathematics and wrote with distinction in all fields of philosophy. Bertrand...
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Biography of Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Russell was born to an aristocratic family that had long been active in British social and political life. His grandfather, John Russell (1792-1878), served twice as Prime Minister of England, and his parents strongly supported most of the progressive...
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Biography of Bertrand (Arthur William) Russell
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Bertrand Russell was well known during his lifetime as a controversial public figure; in retrospect, he has been evaluated primarily as a philosopher and social critic. As a public figure he opposed World War I, supported World War II, headed a...
 


Quotations
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. People who have been puzzled by the beginnings of mathematics will, I hope, find comfort in this definition, and will...


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Russell, Bertrand Summary
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and essayist as well as a champion of humanitarian ideals and influential critic of nuclear weapons. Best known as one of the founders of analytic...
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Bertrand Russell and the Paradoxes of Set Theory Summary
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Bertrand Russell's discovery and proposed solution of the paradox that bears his name at the beginning of the twentieth century had important effects on both set theory and mathematical logic. At about the same time in the 1870s, Georg Cantor...
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Epithets and Terms of Address: Russell, Bertrand
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In The Occupation, by David Caute, a wife says sarcastically to her husband: ‘It’s a wonderful feeling to be married to Jean-Paul Sartre and Bertrand Russell.’ She is implying that he is as distinguished a philosopher and writer as...
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Bertrand Arthur Russell Summary
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1872-1970 British mathematician and philosopher. The son of an earl, Russell was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1903 Russell published a book on the Principles of Mathematics. Over the years 1910-13 Russell and philosopher Alfred North...
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Bertrand Russell Information
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News and Journals
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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
Bibliography of Bertrand Russell.
09/22/1996: 2,482 words, approx. 8 pages
Kenneth Blackwell and Harry Ruja. A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell. London: Routledge, 1994. 3 vols.;/dp/250, $385.00 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 0-415-11644-9. Betrand Russell (1872-1970) is difficult to categorize. Look him up in a dictionary of philosophy and you'll see him described as one...
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Free Inquiry
Russell and the happy life.(Bertrand Russell Remembered)
09/22/1995: 1,106 words, approx. 4 pages
The most important points of Bertrand Russell's philosophy deal with a variety of issues. Russell believed that the success of a journey depends on knowledge of the destination, that happiness is not a figment of the mind, that there is no such thing as...
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Files reveal struggles of The New Leader
2/3/2007: 1,028 words, approx. 3 pages
George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...
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AP News
Files show magazine's struggle
2/3/2007: 1,028 words, approx. 3 pages
George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...
 


Criticism and Essays
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The Metaphysical Philosophy of Bertrand Russell
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A biography of philosopher Bertand Russell whose classic work, "Analysis of the Mind," shows the connections between Russell's views on the nature of the mind and how matter is altered in relation to it.


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