Russell's article "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy". Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the development of classical logic, and a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic (see Logicism). Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism". Moore and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians, and one of the founders of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom. He was a public intellectual, historian, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, and various areas of analytic philosophy, especially philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS ( – 2 February 1970) was a British polymath.
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