David Hayden-Guest ( born David Guest ; January 6, 1911 - July 28, 1938 , Gandes , Spain ) - British mathematician and philosopher . Communist. Member of the civil war in Spain . Volunteer is an inter-brigade man .
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The son of Baron Leslie Hayden-Guest , an English politician who in 1920 was part of the Labor delegation who visited Soviet Russia.
He graduated from the prestigious Trinity College of Cambridge University . Student at Cambridge University since 1929.
From 1930 to 1931 he continued to study mathematics and philosophy at the University of Gottingen in Germany, where he became an anti-fascist . He was arrested, and was in prison for several weeks.
In 1931 he joined the Communist Party in Cambridge . He participated in the creation of a party cell at Cambridge University, the number of members of which in 1935 was 150 people. In 1932, one of the initiators of the creation of the Communist Federation of Student Societies.
After leaving the university, he lectured in mathematics, took an active part in the activities of the Communist Party, in the mid-1930s. worked as a teacher at a specialized secondary English school in Moscow.
In 1938, he left the job of a teacher at University College in Southampton and volunteered for the International Brigade. He took part in the fighting of the Spanish Civil War.
On July 28, 1938, during a battle on the Ebro, David Guest was killed by a sniper while reading a newspaper on a hill.
He is the author of a book on dialectical materialism , A Text Book Of Dialectical Materialism , published in 1939.
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- ↑ 1 2 Swartz A. Open Library - 2005.
- ↑ 1 2 Faceted Application of Subject Terminology