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 ...

Drawing charts and graphs to illustrate pop songs is one if the internet’s most enjoyable diversions, and now a British author has published a book that taps into the trend. 17 November 2008 • 4:01pm ...

Life is complicated. A crisis is complication on steroids. And yet, too often we make them even more complicated than necessary. We can solve most of that with the Serenity Prayer, “…grant me the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a recent interview with Chrissy Teigen, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “I’m going to confess, I love Venn diagrams. If you’re ever in a moment of conflict, pull out a Venn diagram, they’ll ...