Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in Vienna in 1889, he studied engineering in Linz and Berlin and from 1908, aeronautical engineering in Manchester where he developed his interest for pure mathematics and philosophy. Im 1912 he moved to Cambridge to studylogic and philosophy but in 1913 he suddenly abandoned Cambridge and moved to a farm in Norway.

At the beginning of the war he enlisted as a volunteer in the Austrian army and when it finished he was interned in an italian POW-camp (prisoner-of-war camp) until 1919. During those years, since his stay in Norway, he continued thinking about the problems of logic and philosophy and he wrote a short treatise thinking that with it he definitively resolved those problems. The book was published in 1921 in the "Annalen der Naturphilosophie" under the title "Logisch-philosopische Abhandlung" and in 1922 was published the english version "Tractatus Logico-philosophicus" which included an introduction wrote by his friend B. Russell[1]. It became the most influential work of his time.