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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Kurt Godel, Bertrand Russell, John von Neumann, Georg Cantor, Paul Cohen, Max August Zorn, Chris Freiling, Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, Alain Badiou, Saharon Shelah, Andras Hajnal, Edward Kofler, Thoralf Skolem, Leonard Gillman, Petr Vop nka, Ernst Zermelo, Paul Bernays, Judith Roitman, Abraham Fraenkel, Raphael M. Robinson, Keith Devlin, Menachem Magidor, Herbert Enderton, Richard Laver, Andreas Blass, Sy Friedman, Ronald Jensen, Edward Nelson, Matthew Foreman, Tomek Bartoszy ski, Jack Silver, James Earl Baumgartner, Robert M. Solovay, W. Hugh Woodin, Leo Harrington, Paul Finsler, Eric Charles Milner, Yiannis N. Moschovakis, Kenneth Kunen, Paul Mahlo, Akihiro Kanamori, Fred Galvin, Azriel Levy, Moti Gitik, Thomas Jech, Donald A. Martin, Ernst Specker, Adolf Lindenbaum, John R. Steel, Alexander S. Kechris, Geza Fodor, Bohuslav Balcar, Katsuya Eda. Excerpt: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he imagined himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things in any profound sense. He was born in Wales, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain. Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protege Ludwig Wittgenstein, and is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy." His work has had a considerable influence on logic, ...
