Mathematician:John Venn

British mathematician active particularly in the fields of statistics and logic.

Best known for his invention of the Venn diagram.

Later in his career he turned his attention to history. Invented a machine for bowling cricket balls, which, by all accounts, was good enough to give the visiting Australian cricket team serious trouble when they visited in 1909.

Nationality
British

History

 * Born: 4 August 1834, Hull, Yorkshire, UK
 * Died: 4 April 1923, Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * The Venn diagram

Books and Papers

 * 1866: Logic of Chance
 * 1881: Symbolic Logic
 * 1889: The Principles of Empirical Logic
 * 1897: The Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897
 * 1904: The annals of a clerical family
 * 1907: Early Collegiate Life
 * 1922: Alumni Cantabrigienses, Volume 1 (History of Cambridge University)