the.com/bertrand russell
proved 1+1=2 in 379 pages, then spent the rest of his life arguing with everyone else.
means a british philosopher, mathematician, and pugnacious public intellectual who tried to make reason the last word on everything from logic to marriage to nuclear war.
from born 1872 into aristocracy, orphaned young, raised by a strict grandmother who handed him euclid at eleven and accidentally created a lifelong logician.
nobel prizewon literature, not math, in 1950
jailed twicefor pacifism in 1918, nukes protest in 1961
principia mathematica800 pages to prove 1+1=2
fired from ccny1940, deemed morally unfit to teach
for instance
principia mathematica — with whitehead, 1910-1913, tried to derive all math from logic
russell einstein manifesto — 1955, warned humanity to abandon war or perish
russell paradox — 1901 set-theory bomb that broke naive math foundations