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John Venn
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John Venn was a British mathematician, philosopher, university teacher, and computer scientist born in Kingston upon Hull in 1834. He was educated at Highgate School and Gonville and Caius College. Throughout his career, he worked in the field of mathematical logic and was employed by the University of Cambridge, where he held the positions of chairperson and chaplain.
Venn was a member of the Royal Society and received the award of Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also recognized in the Royal Society collection. He contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography and wrote in the English language. He was an Anglican and the father of John Archibald Venn.
He died in Cambridge in 1923. Venn was a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He is listed as an author with 61 works in the Open Library.
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- Works
- 61
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Kingston upon Hull
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Child
- John Archibald Venn
- Father
- Henry Venn
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Position held
- chairperson
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Notable work
- Venn diagram
- Field of work
- mathematical logic
- Image
- Venn John signature.jpg
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- Royal Society
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- John Venn
- date of birth
- 1834-08-04
- date of death
- 1923-04-04
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- contributed to creative work
- Dictionary of National Biography
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- John Venn
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- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
The Venn Building, University of Hull Stained glass window at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, commemorating Venn and the Venn diagram Alternative Heritage plaque for John Venn in Hull John Venn, FRS, FSA (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.
Early life
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