Russell, Bertrand

Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, Earl Russell (1872-1970), thinker, writer, b. near Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales.

Bertrand Russell was a scholar in mathematics and philosophy and one of the greatest thinkers of his time.

His books range from Principles of Mathematics, published in 1903, to a three-volume autobiography (1967-69).

He thought and wrote about the problems human beings have in living and especially about being married, education, religion and war and peace.

In the First World War (1914-18), he was put into prison for protesting against the war, and in the early 1960s, at the age of ninety, he led protests against the making of atom bombs.

As a thinker, people compared him to the Greek scholar, Aristotle.

See A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell