F. P. Ramsey

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930), Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, was one of the most brilliant people of his generation. He lived in an extraordinarily stimulating milieu, surrounded by figures such as Russell, Whitehead, Keynes, Moore, and Wittgenstein. Ramsey''s highly original papers on the foundations of mathematics, probability, economics, philosophy of science and the theory of kn...