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...full and 16 of the half tuition grants were awarded non-restrictively. Three of the remaining scholarships went to Radcliffe undergraduates, eight to students at the Graduate School of Education, and 12 others to undergraduates in Southern universities. The remaining award was given to a student at Principia College in Illinois...
Euclid & God. Even as a boy, he disliked rules. He mastered geometry at eleven, but resented having to accept the axioms of Euclid. Years later, this spark of rebellion touched off an explosive book, Principia Mathematica, in which he and the late great Alfred North Whitehead treated mathematics as "a branch of logic," and armed philosophers with a complex thinking tool known as "symbolic logic...
...while, the young school barely managed to stay alive. But soon celebrities from overseas began to come to its rescue. Sir Richard Steele sent complete files of the Tatler and Spectator, and Sir Isaac Newton sent a copy of his Principia. Finally, a plump, periwigged gentleman named Elihu Yale, a retired East India merchant and a former governor in Madras, sent the most substantial gift of all: ?562 worth of goods...
Russell, who is an Earl in his native England, is known as one of the chief formulators and disseminators of mathematical logic. He was co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of "Principia Mathematica," and modern logical positivism is largely based upon his work...
...present case the forgiving listener was the Hon.* Bertrand Russell, 43-year-old lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, author (with Alfred North Whitehead) of Principia Mathematica, one of the most revolutionary books of the 20th Century. The year was 1915-16; D. H. Lawrence was 30 and beginning to be well known, but in the middle of a "spiritual crisis" that was plunging him into "utter darkness of chaos." All that Russell and Lawrence had in common was a passionate objection to the continuance of World War I, and Lawrence hoped that they might not only get together...