Frank P. Ramsey
Mathematician, Author
1903 – 1930
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Who was Frank P. Ramsey?
Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a precocious British philosopher, mathematician and economist who died at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and was instrumental in translating Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English, as well as persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1921.
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- Born
- Feb 22, 1903
Cambridge - Also known as
- Frank Ramsey
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey
- Siblings
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Winchester College
- Died
- Jan 19, 1930
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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