John Venn: A Life in Logic Verburgt Lukas M.
John Venn: A Life in Logic Verburgt Lukas M. The first comprehensive history of John Venn's life and work.John Venn (1834-1923) is remembered today as the inventor of the famous Venn diagram. Praised…
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John Venn: A Life in Logic Verburgt Lukas M.
The first comprehensive history of John Venn's life and work.John Venn (1834-1923) is remembered today as the inventor of the famous Venn diagram. Praised by John Stuart Mill as a "highly successful thinker" with much "power of original thought," Venn had a profound influence on nineteenth-century philosophers, ranging from Mill and Lewis Carroll to Charles Sanders Peirce. The postmortem fame of the diagram has until now eclipsed Venn's own status as one of the most accomplished logicians of his day.
Through his students, a direct line can be traced from Venn to the early analytical Venn was heir to a clerical Evangelical dynasty but religious doubts led him to resign Holy Orders and instead focus on an academic life, writing influential textbooks on probability theory and logic and advocating alongside Henry Sidgwick for education reform, including that of women.
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