Bertrand Russell. Historical portrait of the British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970),the third Earl of Russell. He was educated at Trinity College,Cambridge,England,and became a fellow there in 1895. His major work the Principia Mathematica (1910-1913),with Alfred Whitehead,is considered a milestone in mathematical logic. During World War I he was an active pacifist,a stance he renounced with the rise of Fascism in the 1930s. He wrote extensively on philosophy and education,founding a progressive school with his second wife. After World War II he wrote at length to world leaders,arguing for nuclear disarmament |