Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English mathematician and philosopher and a founder of analytic philosophy, who did pioneering work in logic, set theory and the philosophy of language. A grandson of the prime minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, he studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Alfred North Whitehead wrote Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic. He went to prison for his pacifism during the First World War, later condemned the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War and campaigned for nuclear disarmament. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.