In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...

Monday's Google Doodle reminds us that it's the 180th anniversary of the birth of John Venn, the English logician whose simple drawing of overlapping circles became a trademark tool of the social ...

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A Venn diagram shows the relationship between a group of different things. It allows us to sort data into two circles which overlap in the middle. Venn diagrams are great for helping us organise two ...

Venn diagrams typically use overlapping circles to show all possible relationships between sets. Traditionally, they include just two or three sets. This example shows how red, blue and green lights ...

A new rose has blossomed in the garden of mathematics: a flowery Venn diagram for 11 sets of objects. Venn diagrams use overlapping circles to show all possible relationships between sets. But ...

A Venn diagram is a way of grouping different items. These groups are known as sets. We have a set of golf clubs or a set of dishes – these are just groups of those items. We write a set using a ...