British mathematician John Venn was born on August 4, 1834, so Friday marks the 183rd anniversary of his birth in Hull, England. John Venn is most known for creating and introducing the Venn diagram ...

It may look like a flower, but this is actually a new Venn diagram-- one that for the first time manages to represent 11 sets of data. Venn diagrams are a simple and elegant way to represent the ...

Most of us know Venn diagrams as something virgins use to tell married men they can’t possibly have sex because TV tells them so. But they’re actually mathematical tools. The idea behind a Venn ...

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 ...

An education consultant planted a seed in my mind several years ago about the usefulness of the triple Venn diagram. She showed the school staff one similar to the one on the left and argued that ...

British mathematician John Venn (pictured above, click to enlarge) was born on August 4, 1834, so last Thursday marked the 188th anniversary of his birth in Hull, England. John Venn is most known for ...