Bertrand Russell

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Russell's adolescence was very lonely, and he often contemplated [[suicide]]. He remarked in his autobiography that his keenest interests were in religion and mathematics, and that only the wish to know more mathematics kept him from suicide.<ref>''The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell'', p. 38</ref> He was educated at home by a series of tutors.<ref name="nobel prize"/>At age 11, his brother Frank introduced him to the work of [[Euclid]], which transformed Russell's life.<ref name="calicut"/><ref name="Greeks">{{cite journal|author=Lenz, John R.|title=Bertrand Russell and the Greeks|date=date unknown|url=http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1443&context=russelljournal|format=PDF|accessdate=27 October