Frank Plumpton Ramsey ( 22 February 1903 - 19 January 1930
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Frank Ramsey made important contributions to philosophy, economics, logic, and mathematics. He was the son of a Cambridge mathematician, and from an early age he was well known to members of the Cambridge intellectual community. He received a degree in mathematics from Trinity College in 1923, became a Fellow of King’s College in 1924, and in 1926 he was made a University Lecturer in Mathematics, the post he held until his early death in 1930. Ramsey was an original thinker and no one’s disciple, but his work clearly shows the influence of Russell, Keynes, Wittgenstein, Moore, W.E. Johnson, and Peirce. Biographical information on Ramsey can be found in Mellor (1995), in Sahlin (1990), and in the introductory sections of Ramsey (1931, 1990).
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