Bertrand Russell, who
passed away on 2 February 1970, was a British philosopher, logician,
mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist,
and Nobel laureate.
He was the figure in the analytic movement in
Anglo-American philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
Russell’s contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of
mathematics established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th
century. To the general public, however, he was best known as a campaigner for
peace and as a popular writer on social, political, and moral
subjects. During a long,
productive, and often turbulent life, he published more than 70 books and about
2,000 articles, married four times, became involved in innumerable public
controversies, and was honoured and reviled in almost equal measure throughout
the world.
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