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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 polymath. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic. His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science (see type theory and type system) and various areas of analytic philosophy, especially logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bertrand Russell has received more than 5,991,623 page views. His biography is available in 117 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 116 in 2019). Bertrand Russell is the 10th most popular mathematician, the 39th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 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

Among mathematicians, Bertrand Russell ranks 10 out of 828. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, and Hypatia. After him are Pierre de Fermat, Fibonacci, Bernhard Riemann, Al-Biruni, John Forbes Nash Jr., and Pierre-Simon Laplace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Bertrand Russell ranks 2. Before him is Roald Amundsen. After him are Piet Mondrian, Alexandra Kollontai, Johan Huizinga, Haakon VII of Norway, Alexandra Feodorovna, Calvin Coolidge, Djemal Pasha, Sergei Diaghilev, Marcel Mauss, and Anton Denikin. Among people deceased in 1970, Bertrand Russell ranks 2. Before him is Charles de Gaulle. After him are Janis Joplin, Abraham Maslow, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Erich Maria Remarque, Jimi Hendrix, António de Oliveira Salazar, Sukarno, Yukio Mishima, Max Born, and Hjalmar Schacht.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bertrand Russell ranks 39 out of 6,924. Before him are David Hume (1711), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Mary II of England (1662), Daniel Defoe (1660), Jane Austen (1775), and James Prescott Joule (1818). After him are Anthony Hopkins (1937), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Henry V of England (1386), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), William Wallace (1270), and Edward Jenner (1749).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Bertrand Russell ranks 1. After him are John Napier (1550), Ada Lovelace (1815), George Boole (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Couch Adams (1819), John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), and John Horton Conway (1937).

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