Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born philosopher, logician, linguist and mathematician. He has been considered one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century.
He was born in Vienna on 26 April 1889 (Austro-Hungarian Empire), but later became a British citizen. He died on 29 April 1953 at the age of 62 in Cambridge.
He studied engineering in Berlin (1906-1908) and Manchester (1908-1912), and devoted himself for three years to aeronautical research, but later abandoned it. He became interested in mathematics and its philosophical foundation. At that time in 1912, he moved to Cambridge and became a disciple of Professor and philosopher Bertrand Russell at Cambridge University. (1912-1913)
His great work was his Tractatus logico-philosophicus, in which he discusses and theorises on the philosophy of language. This treatise had a great impact on the Vienna Circle of logical positivists, of which he never claimed to be a member. After this work, he published, posthumously, The Blue and Brown Notebooks and Philosophical Investigations, criticized works in which he gave a twist to his earlier logical theories.
He was born in Vienna on 26 April 1889 (Austro-Hungarian Empire), but later became a British citizen. He died on 29 April 1953 at the age of 62 in Cambridge.
He studied engineering in Berlin (1906-1908) and Manchester (1908-1912), and devoted himself for three years to aeronautical research, but later abandoned it. He became interested in mathematics and its philosophical foundation. At that time in 1912, he moved to Cambridge and became a disciple of Professor and philosopher Bertrand Russell at Cambridge University. (1912-1913)
His great work was his Tractatus logico-philosophicus, in which he discusses and theorises on the philosophy of language. This treatise had a great impact on the Vienna Circle of logical positivists, of which he never claimed to be a member. After this work, he published, posthumously, The Blue and Brown Notebooks and Philosophical Investigations, criticized works in which he gave a twist to his earlier logical theories.
