John Venn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Venn

English logician and philosopher

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1834

Place of Birth: Kingston upon Hull, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1923

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Leo

John Venn, FRS, FSA, (4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923) was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing the Venn diagram, used in the fields of set theory, probability, logic, statistics, competition math, and computer science.
In 1866, Venn published The Logic of Chance, a ground-breaking book which espoused the frequency theory of probability, offering 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.