John Venn
Mathematician, Academic
1834 – 1923
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Who was John Venn?
John Venn, FRS, FSA was an English logician and philosopher noted for introducing the Venn diagram, used in the fields of set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
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- Born
- Aug 4, 1834
Kingston upon Hull - Also known as
- Венн, Джон
- 約翰·維恩
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Mathematics
(1853/10 - 1857) - Highgate School
(1846/09 - )
- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Lived in
- HM Prison Hull
- Died
- Apr 4, 1923
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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