Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a famous and towering British novelist-a philosopher, logician, mathematician and Nobel laureate. As a founder of analytic philosophy, he revolutionised the field by applying formal logic to linguistic and philosophical problems. His monumental work, 'Principia Mathematica', co-authored with Alfred North Whitehead, attempted to ground all of mathematics in logic.
Beyond academia, Russell was a fierce social critic and a prominent pacifist, famously being imprisoned during World War I for his anti-war activism. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his varied and significant writings in which he championed humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.
