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Bertrand Russell

1872 - 1970

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy. He was one of the early 20th century's prominent logicians and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore, and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bertrand Russell is the 17th most popular mathematician (down from 12th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 44th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Mathematician.

Bertrand Russell is most famous for his work in mathematical logic and philosophy. He was a co-author of Principia Mathematica, which is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics. He was also one of the founders of analytic philosophy.

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Among mathematicians, Bertrand Russell ranks 17 out of 1,004. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Bernhard Riemann, Hypatia, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Al-Biruni, and Pierre de Fermat. After him are Jacob Bernoulli, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Henri Poincaré, Pierre-Simon Laplace, David Hilbert, and Joseph Fourier.

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Among people born in 1872, Bertrand Russell ranks 4. Before him are Roald Amundsen, Piet Mondrian, and Haakon VII of Norway. After him are Alexandra Feodorovna, Richard Willstätter, Alexandra Kollontai, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Greeley Abbot, Johan Huizinga, Edith Wilson, and Emil Hácha. Among people deceased in 1970, Bertrand Russell ranks 3. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, and Janis Joplin. After him are Gamal Abdel Nasser, Erich Maria Remarque, António de Oliveira Salazar, Sukarno, Abraham Maslow, Yukio Mishima, Jimi Hendrix, Alexander Kerensky, and Max Born.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bertrand Russell ranks 77 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Hooke (1635), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Daniel Defoe (1660), and Cecil Rhodes (1853). After him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Harold Harefoot (1016), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), Empress Matilda (1102), and Alfred Hitchcock (1899).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Bertrand Russell ranks 2. Before him are Ada Lovelace (1815). After him are John Napier (1550), George Boole (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), John Couch Adams (1819), Thomas Harriot (1560), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), Joan Clarke (1917), John Wallis (1616), George Green (1793), and William Oughtred (1574).

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