A graphic technique for visualizing set theory concepts using overlapping circles and shading to indicate intersection, union and complement. It was introduced in the late 1800s by English logician, ...

British mathematician John Venn (pictured above, click to enlarge) was born on August 4, 1834, so today marks the 186th anniversary of his birth in Hull, England. John Venn is most known for creating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...