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John Venn
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:''See also
John Venn (regicide). Another John Venn was
Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1686–
1687.''
'''John Venn''' (
August 4,
1834 –
April 4,
1923), was a
United Kingdom British logician and
philosopher, who is famous for conceiving the
Venn diagrams, which are used in many fields, including
set theory,
probability,
logic,
statistics, and
computer science.
He was born in
Kingston upon Hull Hull, Yorkshire. He entered
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in October
1853 and graduated in
1857. Shortly after graduating he was elected a fellow of the college. He was ordained as a
deacon at
Ely in
1858 and became a priest in
1859. In
1862 he returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in moral sciences.
Venn's main area of interest was logic and he published three texts on the subject. He wrote ''The Logic of Chance'' which introduced the
frequentist frequency interpretation of probability in
1866, ''Symbolic Logic'' which introduced the Venn diagrams in
1881, and ''The Principles of Empirical Logic'' in
1889. In
1897, he wrote a history of his college, called ''The Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, 1349–1897''. A
stained glass window in the college commemorates his work. He is also noteworthy for inventing a
cricket bowling machine, which was reportedly most successful, even against the
Australia Australian travelling team's best
batsman (cricket) batsmen.
In 1883, he was elected to the Royal Society.
He died in
Cambridge, England on 4 April, 1923.
Category:1834 births Venn, John
Category:1923 deaths Venn, John
Category:19th century philosophers Venn, John
Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Venn, John
Category:British mathematicians Venn, John
Category:English philosophers Venn, John
Category:Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Venn, John
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Venn, John
Category:People from Hull Venn, John
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