The logician in the archive: John Venn’s diagrams and Victorian historical thinking

Like the overlapping circles of his famous diagrams, English probability theorist, logician, and historian John Venn (1834–1923) operated at a site of productive intersection. Across a career comprising seemingly disparate pursuits, Venn exhibited an epistemic apparatus shaped by a mathematical prob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dunning, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2021