Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was a logician, philosopher, campaigner and aristocrat who lived nearly a century and wrote in every one of its decades. Principia Mathematica, with Whitehead, tried to derive mathematics from logic; The Problems of Philosophy is the short introduction the lists assign; The Analysis of Mind, the Inquiry and Human Knowledge pursue how we know what we know. He was jailed for opposing the First World War, dismissed from City College New York for his views on marriage, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and led the campaign against nuclear weapons into his nineties.