John Venn Biography

John Venn biography

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NAME: John Venn
OCCUPATION: Mathematician
BIRTH DATE: c. August 04, 1834
DEATH DATE: c. April 04, 1923
EDUCATION: Caius College, Cambridge
PLACE OF BIRTH: Hull, England
PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, England

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Mathematician John Venn developed George Boole's symbolic logic and is best known for Venn diagrams, which pictorially represent the relations between sets.

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Mathematician John Venn was born August 4, 1834 in Hull, England. A fellow of Caius College, Cambridge (1857), he developed George Boole's symbolic logic, and in his Logic of Chance (1866) worked on the frequency theory of probability. He is best known for Venn diagrams, pictorially representing the relations between sets.

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Mathematician, born in Hull, NE England, UK. A fellow of Caius College, Cambridge (1857), he developed George Boole's symbolic logic, and in his Logic of Chance (1866) worked on the frequency theory of probability. He is best known for Venn diagrams, pictorially representing the relations between sets, though similar diagrams had been used by Gottfried Leibniz and Leonhard Euler.