April 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of mathematician and philosopher John Venn. You may well be familiar with Venn diagrams—the ubiquitous pictures of typically two or three ...

When calculating the probability of an event, the number of elements in the relevant region and the total number of elements in the universal set, 𝑛(𝜉), must be known. For example, the probability ...

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 ...

British mathematician John Venn (pictured above, click to enlarge) was born on August 4, 1834, so tomorrow will mark the 187th anniversary of his birth in Hull, England. John Venn is most known for ...

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 ...