BERTRAND RUSSELL- Biography

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Birth: 18h May 1872/Death: 2n February 1970

Bertrand Arthur William Russell was a famous English philosopher.

He was born on May 18, 1872 in Trellech, United Kingdom. Bertrand Russell died on February 2, 1970 in Penrhyndeudraeth. At the time of death he was 98 years old.

Bertrand Russell has become famous all over the world as an analytic philosopher.

Bertrand Russell has been accepted as a philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician and social worker. Bertrand Russell was a prolific Writer.

He was a man of deep knowledge. He was born into a family of political activities. It helped him to work as an anti-war activist.

Bertrand Russell also fought for free trade between nations and anti-imperialism.

He authored the essay On Denoting and was co-author (with Alfred North Whitehead) of Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on the laws of logic

Bertrand Russell was born at a time when Britain was becoming more and more powerful in all respects.

Among his post-Second World War political activities, Russell was a vigorous proponent of nuclear disarmament.

In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was presented 'in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought'.