Frank Ramsey (mathematician)

Frank Ramsey
Frank Ramsey
	Ramsey, c. 1921
Born	Frank Plumpton Ramsey; 22 February 1903; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Died	19 January 1930 (aged 26); Southwark, London, England
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1923)
Spouse	Lettice Ramsey (m. 1925)
Children	2
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	King's College, Cambridge
Main interests	Combinatorics; Philosophy of mathematics; Logic; Metaphysics; Epistemology;
Notable ideas	Theory of simple types; Redundancy theory of truth; Ramsey sentences; Ramsey–Lewis method; Ramsey theory; Ramsey problem; Ramsey–Dvoretzky–Milman phenomenon; Ramsey test; Ramsey's theorem; Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model; Keynes–Ramsey rule; Bernays–Schönfinkel–Ramsey class;

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (/ˈræmzi/; 22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He was also influential in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the secret intellectual society, from 1921.

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