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<p>In the <a href="/facts/Philosophy_of_mathematics/z7xBcdWA">philosophy of mathematics</a>, logicism is a programme comprising one or more of the theses that – for some coherent meaning of '<a href="/facts/Logic/8JnpJLtt">logic</a>' – <a href="/facts/Mathematics/pxTouaz4">mathematics</a> is an extension of logic, some or all of mathematics is <a href="/facts/Reduction_(philosophy)/tc2aWaza">reducible</a> to logic, or some or all of mathematics may be <a href="/facts/Model_theory/vLWVV8sQ">modelled</a> in logic. <a href="/facts/Bertrand_Russell/SRpwNX2U">Bertrand Russell</a> and <a href="/facts/Alfred_North_Whitehead/7KuylmP3">Alfred North Whitehead</a> championed this programme, initiated by <a href="/facts/Gottlob_Frege/FXyStVYj">Gottlob Frege</a> and subsequently developed by <a href="/facts/Richard_Dedekind/CLkWDhY3">Richard Dedekind</a> and <a href="/facts/Giuseppe_Peano/VT2Wsmu7">Giuseppe Peano</a>. </p>