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John Venn

(1834—1923) philosopher and antiquary


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(1834–1923)

British logician who, in his work Symbolic Logic of 1881, introduced what are now called Venn diagrams.

Subjects: probability and statistics — philosophy.

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Venn, John (1834-1923), philosopher and antiquary
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VENN, John (1834 - 1923), Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge; President, 1903, antiquaries (general), philosophers (general)
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Venn, John
in A Dictionary of Statistics

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Venn, John
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