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- Birth nameBertrand Arthur William Russell
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Bertrand Russell was born on May 18, 1872 in Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. He was a writer, known for Reductio: Adventures in Ideas (2019), Filosofix (2018) and Aman (1967). He was married to Edith Finch, Patricia Spence, Dora Russell and Alys Pearsall. He died on February 2, 1970 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, Wales, UK.
- SpousesEdith Finch(December 15, 1952 - February 2, 1970) (his death)Patricia Spence(1936 - 1952) (divorced, 1 child)Dora Russell(September 21, 1921 - 1935) (divorced, 2 children)Alys Pearsall(December 1894 - 1921) (divorced)
- RelativesAlexander Plunket-Greene(Cousin)
- Founding president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
- Received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
- Narrator for the ABC-BBC radio production of "Living in an Atomic Age" (1953).
- Famous philosopher and author of books on the foundations of mathematics, the development of contemporary formal logic, and analytic philosophy. His contributions relating to mathematics include his discovery of Russell's Paradox, his defence of logicism (the view that mathematics is reducible to formal logic), his introduction of the theory of types, and his refining and popularizing of the first-order predicate calculus.
- Father of three children: John Conrad Russell and Katharine Jane Russell (with Dora Winifred Black); and Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, the 5th Earl Russell (with Patricia (known as "Peter") Helen Spence).
- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
- All professions are plots against the laity.
- Insight, untested and unsupported, is an insufficient guarantee of truth.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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