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John Archibald Venn (10 November 1883 – 15 March 1958) was a British economist. He was President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1932 until his death, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–1943, university archivist, and author, with his father, of Alumni Cantabrigienses.
They had one child, a son John Archibald Venn, who became president of Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1932, and undertook major collaborative research projects with his father that we give more details on below. Venn published Symbolic Logic in 1881 and The Principles of Empirical Logic in 1889.
John Archibald Venn (1883–1958), President. Thomas Sherwood La Fontaine (1915–2007) Queens' College, University of Cambridge. © the artist's estate. Photo credit: Queens' College, University of Cambridge. Send information to Art Detective. The only child of John Venn (1834–1923) and Susanna Carnegie Venn (née Edmonstone) (1844–1931).
- John Venn – Early Years
- The Venn Diagram
- Later Years
John Venn was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, UK, as the son of Martha Venn (née Sykes) and the pastor and social reformer Henry Venn. He grew up with two sisters, Henrietta and Susan. His mother died when he was three years old. Venn was descended from a long line of Lutheran clergy, including his grandfather, John Venn Senior, who worked t...
In 1862, Venn returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in Moral Science and studying and teaching logic and probability theory. It is believed that Venn became more enthusiastic about the field of logic after reading the works of De Morgan, Boole, John Austin, and John Stuart Mill. He also began extending Boole’s mathematical logic and created what he i...
In his later career, John Venn was elected a member of the Royal Society and wrote his book ‘The Biographical History of Gonville and Cauis College‘, which was published in 1897. His son, John Archibald Venn became president of Queen’s College, Cambridge in 1932. Together with his son John Archibald Venn he was the editor of the reference book Alum...
Apr 2, 2014 · Mathematician John Venn developed George Boole's symbolic logic and is best known for Venn diagrams, which pictorially represent the relations between sets.
John Venn (born Hull, Yorkshire, August 4, 1834 – died Cambridge, April 4, 1923), was a British logician and philosopher, who is famous for conceiving the Venn diagrams, which are used in many fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science .
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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.
