I finished Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak (Icons passim) on Audible last night.
He was a student of yesterday's John Maynard Keynes. Further his 1926 paper "Truth and Probability" took issue with Keynes' A Treatise on Probability.
Many other friends of these pages pop up; Wittgenstein, for example. Roger Penrose helped the author with information about his father Lionel.
What a shadow Cambridge in the first half of the 20th Century continues to cast.
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