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Bertrand Russell is a British philosopher, mathematician, logician, and public intellectual who lived from 1872 to 1970
. He authored over seventy-five works and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 for writings that championed “humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.” This guide offers brief discussions of three of Russell’s many works: The Problems of Philosophy (1912); Principia Mathematica, which Russell co-authored with mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and was published in three volumes in 1910, 1912, and 1913; and Our Knowledge of the External World (1914).SparkNotes also offers a separate, more comprehensive study guide for The Problems of Philosophy.
