Frank Plumpton Ramsey (22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a precocious British philosopher mathematician and economist who died at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and was instrumental in translating Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English as well as persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles the intellectual secret society from 1921.
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