John Venn

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John Venn was an English logician and philosopher best known for introducing Venn diagrams, which visually represent logical and set-theoretic relationships.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
logician
mathematician
philosopher
awardReceived Fellow of the Royal Society
centuryOfActivity 19th century
20th century
clergyStatus Anglican priest
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1834-08-04
dateOfDeath 1923-04-04
describedVennDiagramsIn Symbolic Logic
educatedAt Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
employer Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup English
familyName Venn
father Henry Venn
fieldOfWork logic
philosophy
probability theory
set theory
givenName John
hasRepresentation Venn diagram named after him
knownFor introducing Venn diagrams
work on logic
work on probability
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society
name John Venn
notableWork Symbolic Logic
The Logic of Chance
The Principles of Empirical or Inductive Logic
Venn diagram
occupation logician
mathematician
philosopher
priest
placeOfBirth England
Kingston upon Hull
Yorkshire
placeOfDeath Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
England
positionHeld fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
lecturer in moral science at the University of Cambridge
religion Anglicanism
sexOrGender male


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