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...Mathematica 36 hf.--Potential Function (Advanced Course...
...Author. The fame of Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell will hardly be increased if he becomes third Earl Russell (he is heir presumptive). Philosopher, mathematician, he is great & good friend to Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, with whom he wrote Principia Mathematica, incomprehensible to laymen, to mathematicians a delight. During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, �100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven...
...also belongs to the School of English Realists of which Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore are two of the most prominent members. In 1922 he was the first recipient of the James Scott prize offered by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Among his publications are the "Principia Mathematica" in three volumes, "Principles of Relativity", and "The Principles of Natural Knowledge". In the last production he describes himself as a "Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Imperial College of Science and Technology...
...kept at all abreast of modern philosophic thought. Mr. Russell has established himself so firmly in philosophy that it is not untrue to say that in England today there is a "Russian school." Professor Royce remarked on one occasion, at least, that Mr. Russell's work, "The Principia Mathematica," is undoubtedly the most important work in philosophy of the past ten or fifteen years...
...philosophy, logic, social psychology, and ethics. Particularly striking will his vigorous and novel views be regarded here in that he is one of the distinguished leaders of the present Neo-realistic movement which is a reaction against the old extremes of naturalism and idealism. His most brilliant works, "Principia Mathematica" (1910) and "Problems of Philosophy" (1911) aroused a revolutionary enthusiasm among the Syounger and rising philosophers of the present generation. His visit will undoubtedly be a great factor in paving the way for a revival of Harvard's position as the mecca of philosophers as it had been when...