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• He was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers Cambridge ever produced. Yet he died just shy of his twenty-seventh birthday, in January 1930.
• Frank Ramsey was an academic for ten years. In that short span, he made indelible marks on as many as seven disciplines, depending how you count: philosophy, economics, pure mathematics, mathematical logic, the foundations of mathematics, probability theory, and decision theory.
• economist Joseph Schumpeter described him as being like a young thoroughbred,