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How has Boole's work been used by more recent mathematicians?

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In his 1881 treatise, Symbolic Logic, the English logician and mathematician John Venn interpreted Boole's work and introduced a new method of diagramming Boole's notation; this was later refined by the English mathematician Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll —this method is now know as the Venn diagram.

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