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John Venn

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Profession
Philosopher
Died
Apr 4, 1923
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
England
About
Best known as the originator of the ubiquitous Venn diagram, this late nineteenth-century philosopher and logician contributed to the fields of statistics and probability. His publications include Symbolic Logic and The Logic of Chance.
Family
Born in Yorkshire, England, he was the son of the prominent Anglican cleric Henry Venn and Reverend Venn's wife, Martha Sykes. His marriage to Susanna Carnegie Edmonstone resulted in a son, John Archibald Venn, who had a successful career as an economist.

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