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 ...

British mathematician John Venn was born on August 4, 1834, so this Saturday marks the 184th anniversary of his birth in Hull, England. John Venn is most known for creating and introducing the Venn ...

A Venn diagram captioned: "In a survey of 250 European travelers, 93 have traveled to Africa, 155 have traveled to Asia, and 70 have traveled to both of these continents, as illustrated in the Venn ...

Venn Diagrams are named for English logician John Venn (1834-1923) of Cambridge, who explained them in his book “Symbolic Logic” (1881). While logisticians embraced them in the early 1900’s, it was ...

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The man who invented the elegant overlapping circle diagrams would have been 180 today. Infographic: Which Flu Strain Is Most Likely To Bring The Apocalypse? H1N1? Bird flu? Swine flu? Confused? Don’t ...