Brief history of john venn

John venn contributions to mathematics

John Venn, FRS, FSA (4 August – 4 April ) was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science.
brief history of john venn

What is john venn famous for

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.


John venn diagram

Venn is remembered largely for his writings on logic and his compilation of data on alumni of Cambridge University, but he also wrote a widely read text-book on probability .

John venn interesting facts
The British logician John Venn was born at Drypool, Hull, the elder son of the Reverend Henry Venn, a prominent evangelical divine.