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 ...

It’s a tribute to John Venn, the diagram’s creator, born today in 1834. (Incidentally, I disagree with the linked Guardian piece’s assertion that the doctor/prostitute/TSA diagram is problematic. You ...

A Venn diagram can show data sets such as preferences in market research. When sets intersect (overlap), the elements in the intersection are members of both sets. When the sets have no elements in ...

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Venn diagrams are used to sort sets of data. The probability of an event not happening uses the complement of the region on the Venn diagram. Count the number of elements in each region. Redraw the ...

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 ...