John Venn, (
August 4,
1834 -
April 4,
1923), was a
British mathematician, who is famous for conceiving the
Venn diagrams, which is used in many fields, including
set theory,
probability,
logic,
statistics, and
computer science.
He was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England[?] and died in Cambridge, England. John Venn introduced the Venn diagrams in 1881.