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.
