BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Ghost of Madness. By Ray Monk. Free Press, $40. THE splendid subtitles of Ray Monk's two-volume biography of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell illuminate two aspects ...

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL: 1914-1944. 418 pages. Little, Brown. $8.95. Bertrand Russell is one of the world’s most penetrating thinkers within the disciplines of mathematics and philosophy ...

Before he was a philosopher, Bertrand Russell was a Russell, member of the great Whig family which had left its mark on English political and intellectual history since the fifteenth century. Lord ...

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Over the course of a long career, Russell also ...