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"Logic is the youth of mathematics and mathematics is the manhood of logic."
On May 18, 154 years ago, Bertrand Russell was born.
This British logician and mathematician discovered Russell’s Paradox in 1901. The paradox considers “the set of all sets that do not contain themselves” and exposed a contradiction in naive set theory. This led mathematicians to re-examine the foundations of set theory.
Russell then collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead on Principia Mathematica, published in three volumes from 1910 to 1913. The work attempted to derive all of mathematics from pure logic using a system of type theory. It became one of the major projects in the history of logic and mathematics.