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Books by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, and public intellectual whose work in mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics — particularly Principia Mathematica, written with Alfred North Whitehead — helped establish analytic philosophy as a distinct tradition. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. Beyond logic and epistemology, he wrote extensively on education, marriage, ethics, religion, and politics, and was a prominent peace activist during both World Wars and the nuclear age. He lived to ninety-seven and remained publicly engaged until near the end of his life.