Invented by Dr John Venn. We think the attached picture does an excellent job of both illustrating all you need to know about how Venn diagrams work and also of succinctly answering that knotty question of what exactly is the difference between the British Isles, the UK, etc.
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Venn diagram
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Rev and Dr Venn
Venn Street, SW4 The Reverend John Venn (1759 - 1813), after whom this street...
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LEO - Lyons Electronic Office
The world's first business computer was built and operated by J. Lyons & Co. The LEO website provides: In October 1947, the directors of J. Lyons & Company, a British catering company famo...
Dr John Venn
Logician and philosopher. Born Hull where his father was vicar of a local parish. Grandson of Rev John Venn. Inventor of the Venn diagram. In 1888 he seems to have tired of logic and turned to ...
Alan Turing
Mathematician, computer scientist and war-shortener. Born Alan Mathison Turing at Warrington Lodge, Warrington Avenue. He formalized the concepts of 'algorithm' and 'computation' and effectively in...
Alexander R. Stokes
Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953 at King's College London with Franklin, Gosling, Wilkins and Wilson. Born Macclesfield.
Sir Alexander Fleming
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrat...
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