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“We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.”

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John Venn
John Venn

John Venn was a British philosopher born on August 4, 1834, and died on April 4, 1923. He is best known as the inventor of Venn diagrams, a graphical tool widely used in logic and mathematics to represent relationships between sets. more

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