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John Venn, FRS, [2] [3] FSA [4] (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.
A Venn diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s. The diagrams are used to teach elementary set theory , and to illustrate simple set relationships in probability , logic , statistics , linguistics and computer science .
Contributions; Talk; List of logicians. ... A logician is a person who studies logic. ... John Venn (England, 1834–1923)
Dr John Venn, who died in 1923 aged 88, created the device in the early 1900s, as well as giving his name to Venn diagrams.
John Venn, who provided a thorough exposition of frequentist probability in his book, The Logic of Chance [1]. Frequentist probability or frequentism is an interpretation of probability; it defines an event's probability as the limit of its relative frequency in infinitely many trials (the long-run probability). [2]
The principal examples of such machines are those of William Stanley Jevons (logic piano), [1] [2] John Venn, [3] and Allan Marquand. [4] [5] Contemporary logical machines are computer-based electronic programs that perform proof assistance with theorems in mathematical logic.
The classical definition of probability was called into question by several writers of the nineteenth century, including John Venn and George Boole. [2] The frequentist definition of probability became widely accepted as a result of their criticism, and especially through the works of R.A. Fisher.
John von Neumann (/ v ɒ n ˈ n ɔɪ m ən / von NOY-mən; Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer.