Thursday, May 5, 2011

John Venn


John Venn was known as one of the organizers of modern symbolic logic. Venn get a math degree at the age of 23 years. Two years later, Venn be accepted as a lecturer at Cambridge university lecturer in moral science.

During the mid-19th century, learning logic experiencing rapid development in the UK. Mathematicians create symbols and mengkuantakan main concepts of logical thinking. Consequently, Venn chose to focus on the study of logic for him in Cambridge. In addition, he investigates the field of probability and published The Logic of Chance, one of the main works in 1866.



Venn logic studied many books created by Augustus de Morgan, George Boole, and Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). Work linking Boolean Logic and Algebra greatly affect Venn, in fact, use a Venn diagram that is now known by his own name, in 1876, to examine the symbolic logic developed by Boole.

Venn was not the first to use diagrams that are known by name. Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and others use a Venn diagram that is identical before using it. Venn criticized the lack seragaman use the figure geometry. He developed the use of geometric figures to analyze the logic of reasoning that is more consistent. Now, the figure of geometry are known by name and very often used in the basic sets and logic.

Some of his Symbolic Logic (1881) and The Principle of Empirical Logic (1889), used in the late 19th and early 20th century. Venn too much to write history, especially related to college and his family.

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