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Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century.
* He was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1889 and died in Cambridge, England, in 1951.
* Wittgenstein studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge.
* He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.
* After the war, he returned to Cambridge and began teaching philosophy.
* He published his first book, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in 1922.
* In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein argued that the limits of my world are the limits of my language.
* He later rejected the views expressed in the Tractatus and developed a new approach to philosophy, which he called "late Wittgenstein."
* Wittgenstein's work has had a profound influence on many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of mind.
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