Mathematician John Venn was born in Hull, England, in 1834. A fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, he developed George Boole's symbolic logic, and in his Logic of Chance (1866) worked on the frequency theory of probability. read more
Mathematician John Venn developed George Boole's symbolic logic and is best known for Venn diagrams, which pictorially represent the relations between sets. read more
John Venn was a renowned British mathematician and logician of the 19th century. He is most well remembered for the standardization and widespread use of “Venn diagrams” in the study of probability and statistics, logic and computer science. Venn was born in 1834 in Yorkshire, England to an Anglican family. read more