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John Venn
FRS FSA
Born
(1834-08-04)4 August 1834
Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
Died
4 April 1923(1923-04-04) (aged 88)
Cambridge, England
Alma mater
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Known for
Frequentist probability
Reference class problem
Venn diagram
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society (1883)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Logic[1]
Philosophy
Institutions
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Signature
The Venn Building, University of HullStained glass window at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, commemorating Venn and the Venn diagramAlternative heritage plaque for John Venn in Hull
John Venn, FRS,[2][3] FSA[4] (4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923) was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science. In 1866, Venn published The Logic of Chance, a groundbreaking book which espoused the frequency theory of probability, arguing that probability should be determined by how often something is forecast to occur as opposed to "educated" assumptions. Venn then further developed George Boole's theories in the 1881 work Symbolic Logic, where he highlighted what would become known as Venn diagrams.
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Cambridge which was edited by the mathematician JohnVenn (1834–1923) and his son John Archibald Venn (1883–1958) and published by Cambridge University...
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mechanical method has the advantage over VENN's geometrical method..." (Couturat 1914:75). For his part JohnVenn, a logician contemporary to Jevons, was...
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At first there were two windows, the other featuring a Venn diagram to commemorate JohnVenn, both installed in time for the 1990 centenary of Fisher's...
the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, JohnVenn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part...
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