(See the first two paragraphs of my first post on BR, here.) Russell’s attempt to show that mathematics is just glorified logic is called Logicism. It was a pretty convincing attempt. He published it in Principia Mathematica (1910-1913) which he wrote with Whitehead. This post is a summary of it, paraphrased from other sites that explain it for us. Logicism is in the philosophy of mathematics and consists of one…