Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (/ˈræmzi/; 22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist. He made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He also had great effect in getting Wittgenstein to come back to philosophy and Cambridge.

Frank P. Ramsey
Ramsey, c. 1921
Born	(1903-02-22)22 February 1903 Cambridge, UK
Died	19 January 1930(1930-01-19) (aged 26) London, UK
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1923)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	King's College, Cambridge
Main interests	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
Influences Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Sanders Peirce, Bertrand Russell, Charles Kay Ogden[1]
Influenced Susan Haack, Iván Werning, Ludwig Wittgenstein