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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 .
Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies sets, which can be informally described as collections of objects.Although objects of any kind can be collected into a set, set theory – as a branch of mathematics – is mostly concerned with those that are relevant to mathematics as a whole.
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.
Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 is a biographical register of former members of the University of Cambridge which was edited by the mathematician John Venn (1834–1923) and his son John Archibald Venn (1883–1958) and published by Cambridge University Press in ...
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]
At first there were two windows, the other featuring a Venn diagram to commemorate John Venn, both installed in time for the 1990 centenary of Fisher's birth. In 1992, the set was expanded with four more windows representing scientific achievements with links to the college: a DNA spiral celebrating Francis Crick , and windows celebrating ...
1923 - Death of John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834) 1932 - Death of Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853) 1949 - Birth of Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese mathematician; 1961 - Death of Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873) 1996 - Comet Hyakutake was imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid ...