Ramsey, Frank Plumpton, 1903 - 1930 (mathematician and philosopher)
Dates and places
1903-1903 KCC 1924
Sphere of activity
Admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1920. Elected Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Lecturer in Mathematics, 1924. Elected University Lecturer and Director of Studies in Mathematics at King's, 1926.
Admin / Family structure
Married Lettice Cautley Baker in 1925
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
'Better than the Stars: A Radio Portrait of Frank Ramsey', 1978
CD recording of 'Better than the Stars: A Radio Portrait of Frank Ramsey', written and presented by D. H. Mellor. The programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 27 Feb. 1978.
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Correspondence between J.M. Keynes and Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1913 - 1939
Discussion after publication, 1921 - 1922
This file includes exchanges with C.D. Broad, F.Y. Edgeworth, F.P. Ramsey and others.
'Four early twentieth-century philosophers', 2004
This is a typescript preprint of an entry written for the 'Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers' (Theommes Press, Bristol, 2005) for JMK.
Galley and page proofs, with photographs, 1932-10
This file comprises galleys of footnotes to the article on A. Marshall, stamped 22 October; page proofs of part of an obituary of A.J. Balfour [1st published June 1930], stamped 25 October, and proof photographs of F.Y. Edgeworth, A. and M.P. Marshall and F.P. Ramsey. It also includes a print of F.Y. Edgeworth in Red Cross uniform during World War One and 3 sheets of photographs of A. Marshall from J.M. Keynes' memoir. Some items have been emended by J.M. Keynes.
Letter from Frank Plumpton Ramsey to J.M. Keynes, 1925-12-11
1 autograph letter, signed.
Letters from Frank Plumpton Ramsey and an item concerning his death, 1923 - 1930
14 autograph letters, signed.
This file also includes 1 autograph postcard, signed from Richard Braithwaite announcing the death of Frank Plumpton Ramsey. [p.m. 10 Jan. 1930]
Ramsey: The Papers of Frank Plumpton Ramsey
The collection comprises originals and photocopies of personal and family papers, including correspondence with Lettice Ramsey (nee Baker) and her memoir of him, letters from Frank to his parents, his diaries, a paper he read to the Apostles, his parents' scrapbook about him, a [draft] letter from Frank to Ludwig Wittgenstein, a draft article, photographs mostly of Frank, and obituaries.