Word: principia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collaboration with Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard, under whom he studied mathematics at Cambridge University, England, Russell wrote the "Principia Mathematics", a work advancing the proposition that logic and mathematics, can be united into a single science...
...student at Cambridge University, England, Russell studied mathematics under Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard. Later he became an instructor at Cambridge and collaborated with Professor Whitehead in writing "Principia Mathematical", three volumes of which have been published. In spite of its title this work is a treatise of logic as well as mathematics, and advances the theory that mathematics and logic can be united in a single science...
...This lecture, which is delivered each year by some well-known astronomer, is named for Edmund Halley, who lived during the last half of the seventeenth, and first half of the eighteenth centuries. Halley, particularly famous for his cometary researches, encouraged Isaac Newton to the publication of his "Principia" and to the announcement of the law of gravitation...
...England and also belongs to the School of English Realists of which Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore are two of the most prominent members. In 1922 he was the first recipient of the James Scott prize offered by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Among his publications are the "Principia Mathematica" in three volumes, "Principles of Relativity", and "The Principles of Natural Knowledge". In the last production he describes himself as a "Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Imperial College of Science and Technology...