Schröder material at the Russell archives

Abstract

A description is given of the holdings of the Bertrand Russell Archives relating specifically to Schröder. These include Russell's copy of various works of Schröder, as well as Russell's none too numerous or detailed notes on these materials. There is no Russell-Schröder correspondence, although Schröder figures in Russell's correspondence with others, primarily with Р. E. В. Jourdain and with Louis Couturat.

Russell's appraisal of Schröder's work was largely negative, and there is relatively little in the Russell Archives that relates to Schröder. What material there is, however, reenforces the conclusion drawn from published pronouncements in The principles of mathematics and elsewhere that Russell had little regard for Schröder's work in particular or for the entire algebraic tradition in general.