A Brief Biography Of Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born to parents Viscount Amberley and Katherine, on May 18, 1872. At Trellech, United Kingdom; by the age of three he became an orphan left to be raised by his grandmother. Although he was not sent to school, he was taught by governesses and tutors.
Gaining a perfect knowledge of the French and German languages. In 1890 he went to Trinity College and Cambridge, in the year 1895 he was elected fellow of Trinity but did not get the job because he had already left the school in the summer of 1834.
In school he got a first class education and understanding in philosophy; December 1834 he married Alys Pearsall Smith. After a short amount of time of studying in Berlin he and his wife moved near Haslemere. 1900 Russell visited a mathematical congress in Paris, here he was impressed by the ability of mathematician Peano, after that he immediately began to study his work. After studying Peano’s work in 1903 wrote his first important book “The Principles of Mathematics.” With the help of Dr. Alfred Whitehead he proceeded to extend his knowledge of the mathematical logic of Peano; 1908 was elected fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1910 he was appointed by Trinity College as lecturer, but in 1916 was deprived of his position.; because he took part in No Conscription after the first World War broke out, he was heavily fined. After he was offered a job position at Harvard, but was refused a passport. He intended on giving lecture courses, but was stopped by military authorities. 1918 sentenced six months in prison for a pacifistic article in a magazine. His book “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy” was written in prison.
As of the year 1920 he went to Russia to study Bolshevism, and later in autumn wen...

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...ght out of its straitjacket”. In addition he was also contributed a lot the foundations of mathematics, with his books and ideas. He is also noted for his protests against World War I and the Vietnam War.
In May 1901 while Russell was writing one of his books he discovered a paradox which bears his name. This paradox arose with the connection with the set of all sets which aren’t members of themselves. A set, which if it exists will be and member of itself and only itself. Significance of the paradox follows a classical logic, all of the sentences are entailed by contradiction. In the eyes of numerous mathematicians that therefore there is no proof that could be trusted once it was discovered that this logic underlies all all of mathematics was contradictory; at one point he said, “Trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocky and the smart are full of doubt.”