18 May 1872 2 February 1970

PREPARED BY:
Veronica Gayle Garcia
Jershey Ann Mariano
Nevyl Joyce Naco

SUBMITTED TO:
Ms. Raizza P. Corpuz, MATSS
INTRODUCTION
He was born at Trellech
Monmouthshire,United Kingdom on 18th
May 1872.

He was a British philosopher, logician,

mathematician, historian, writer, social
critic, political activist and Nobel laureate

His father was Viscount Amberley and his

mother was Katherine.
 Russell was orphaned when he was only three
years old and was brought up by his
grandmother who was a wife of the Prime
minister.

His childhood was filled with depression with

the early death of his parent and siblings. He
always think of killing his self. But what kept
him away from it was mathematics.

Instead of studying in school he was

homeschooled. But later on his life turned a
new page after his introduction to the works
of Euclid and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
 He came under the influence of Alfred North
Whitehead, who recommended him to
the Cambridge Apostles. He quickly
distinguished himself in mathematics and
philosophy, graduating as seventh Wrangler in
the former in 1893 and becoming a Fellow in
the latter in 1895.
PHILOSOPHY
Russell is generally credited with being one of
the founders of analytic philosophy.

He was in the field of metaphysics, the logic

and the philosophy of mathematics,
the philosophy of
language, ethics and epistemology.
RELIGION
Russell once described himself as an agnostic,
"speaking to a purely philosophical audience",
but as an atheist "speaking popularly", on the
basis that he could not disprove the Christian
God similar to the way that he could not
disprove the Olympic gods either.
SOCIETY
Russell argued for a "scientific society", where
war would be abolished, population growth
would be limited, and prosperity would be
shared. He suggested the establishment of a
"single supreme world government" able to
enforce peace, claiming that "the only thing
that will redeem mankind is co-operation".
 Russell began his published work in 1896
with German Social Democracy, a study in politics
that was an early indication of a lifelong interest in
political and social theory.

In 1898 he wrote An Essay on the Foundations of

Geometry.

In 1903 he published The Principles of Mathematics,

a work on foundations of mathematics. It
advanced a thesis of logicism, that mathematics
and logic are one and the same.
 De Morgan Medal (1932)
Sylvester Medal (1934)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1950)
Kalinga Prize (1957)
Jerusalem Prize (1963)