Bertrand Russell

"Fightin'" Bert Russell squares up for a bare-fist boxing match.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS -- better known as Fightin' Bert Russell -- (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and world-champion pugilist.

See also Bertrand Russell (nonfiction).

In the News

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  Bertrand Russell, age 4, calls for world peace.

Fiction cross-reference

• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)
• Logic (nonfiction)