John Venn
1834-1923
English mathematician and minister best known for developing Venn diagrams to graphically represent sets and their intersections. In addition to set theory, Venn studied logic and ...
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The logic of John Venn (1834–1923), sketched briefly in the Princeton Review (1880) and more fully elaborated in his Symbolic Logic (London, 1881), shows a greater understanding of George ...
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Venn, John(1834–1923)
The British logician John Venn was born at Drypool, Hull, the elder son of the Reverend Henry Venn, a prominent evangelical divine. After early education at Highgate and I...
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John Venn is most famous for his development of diagrams, later named after him, that depict relationships between sets. Although Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebniz and Leonhard Euler had used similar diag...
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