Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain.

Russell led the British “revolt against idealism” in the early 20th century.He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein.

He is widely held to be one of the 20th century’s premier logicians.His work has had a considerable influence on logic,mathematics,set theory,linguistics,artificial intelligence,computer science,and philosophy,especially philosophy of language,epistemology,and metaphysics.