ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Bertrand Russell

Full name: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, the 3rd Earl Russell.

British philosopher, mathematician and logician.

Best known for his co-authorship with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica, published from 1910.

Nationality

Welsh

History

• Born: 18 May 1872, Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales
• Died: 2 Feb 1970, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, Wales

Theorems

• Russell's Paradox

Books and Papers

• 1903: Principles of Mathematics
• 1908: Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types (Amer. J. Math. Vol. 30: 222 – 262), in which the notation $\left({x}\right)$ was coined for the universal quantifier.
• 1910 - 1913: Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead)

Wrote a colossal amount of other stuff as well.

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Bertrand Russell": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive