John Venn was an English mathematician and logician best known for the Venn diagrams which can be used to visualise the unions and intersections of sets. He was born in Hull on 4 August 1834 and died in Cambridge on 4 April 1923. His diagrams made the logic of classes visible on the page and are now used from the primary school classroom to advanced set theory, and he was a figure in the nineteenth-century algebra of logic.
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John Venn was an English mathematician and logician best known for the Venn diagrams which can be used to visualise the unions and intersections of sets.
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John Venn was an English mathematician and logician best known for the Venn diagrams which can be used to visualise the unions and intersections of sets.
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