John Venn
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John Venn was a British logician and philosopher who lived from 1834 to 1923 and made important contributions to the study of logic and reasoning. He is best known for developing Venn diagrams, a visual tool that uses overlapping circles to represent logical relationships between different sets of things.
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- Born
- 1834-08-04
- Died
- 1923-04-04
- Works
- 61
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5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
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The Venn Building, University of Hull Stained glass window at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, commemorating Venn and the Venn diagram Alternative Heritage plaque for John Venn in Hull John Venn, FRS, FSA (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. In 1866, Venn published The Logic of Chance, a groundbreaking book which espoused the frequency theory of probability, arguing that probability should be determined by how often something is forecast to occur as opposed to "educated" assumptions. Venn then further developed George Boole's theories in the 1881 work Symbolic Logic, where he highlighted what would become known as Venn diagrams.
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1834 births1923 deaths19th-century English Anglican priests19th-century English mathematicians19th-century English philosophersAlumni of Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyEnglish logiciansFellows of Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeFellows of the Society of Antiquaries of LondonMathematicians from Kingston upon Hull