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Venn diagrams use overlapping shapes to show relationships between different sets of items. They were named after John Venn but originated even earlier. Venn diagrams allow users to visualize how items are similar or different between sets. They are commonly used in math, science, and business to organize concepts and highlight relationships.

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Venn Diagram

Venn diagrams use overlapping shapes to show relationships between different sets of items. They were named after John Venn but originated even earlier. Venn diagrams allow users to visualize how items are similar or different between sets. They are commonly used in math, science, and business to organize concepts and highlight relationships.

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A Venn diagram uses overlapping circles or other shapes to


illustrate the logical relationships between two or more sets of
items.
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3. Often, they serve to graphically organize things, highlighting how
the items are similar and different.
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5. Venn diagrams, also called Set diagrams or Logic diagrams, are
widely used in mathematics, statistics, logic, teaching, linguistics,
computer science and business.
6. Many people first encounter them in school as they study math or
logic, since Venn diagrams became part of “new math” curricula in
the 1960s. These may be simple diagrams involving two or three
sets of a few elements, or they may become quite sophisticated,
including 3D presentations, as they progress to six or seven sets
and beyond.
7. Next:
8. They are used to think through and depict how items relate to each
within a particular “universe” or segment. Venn diagrams allow
users to visualize data in clear, powerful ways, and therefore are
commonly used in presentations and reports.
9. They are closely related to Euler diagrams, which differ by omitting
sets if no items exist in them. Venn diagrams show relationships
even if a set is empty.
Venn diagram history

2.a Venn diagrams are named after British logician John Venn. He wrote about them in an 1880 paper
entitled “On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Representation of Propositions and Reasonings” in the
Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science.
3. But the roots of this type of diagram go back much further, at least
600 years. In the 1200s, philosopher and logician Ramon Llull (sometimes
spelled Lull) of Majorca used a similar type of diagram, wrote author M.E.
Baron in a 1969 article tracing their history.

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She also credited German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried


Wilhelm von Leibnitz with drawing similar diagrams in the late 1600s.

In the 1700s, Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler (pronounced Oy-ler) invented what came to be
known as the Euler Diagram, the most direct forerunner of the Venn Diagram. In fact, John Venn
referred to his own diagrams as Eulerian Circles, not Venn Diagrams.

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The term Venn Diagrams was first published by American philosopher Clarence Irving (C.I.)
Lewis in his 1918 book, A Survey of Symbolic Logic.

Venn Diagrams continued to evolve over the past 60 years with advances by experts David W.
Henderson, Peter Hamburger, Jerrold Griggs, Charles E. “Chip” Killian and Carla D. Savage.

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Their work concerned symmetric Venn Diagrams and their relationship to prime numbers, or
numbers indivisible by other numbers except 1 and the number itself. One such symmetric
diagram, based on prime number 7, is widely known in math circles as Victoria.

Other notable names in the development of Venn Diagrams are A.W.F. Edwards,
Branko Grunbaum and Henry John Stephen Smith.

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Among other things, they changed the shapes in the diagrams to allow simpler depiction of Venn
Diagrams at increasing numbers of sets.

Say our universe is pets, and we want to compare which type of pet our family might
agree on.

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Set A contains my preferences: dog, bird, hamster.


Set B contains Family Member B’s preferences: dog, cat, fish.

Then

Set C contains Family Member C’s preferences: dog, cat, turtle, snake.

The overlap, or intersection, of the three sets contains only dog. Looks like we’re getting
a dog.

Of course, Venn diagrams can get a lot more involved than that, as they are used
extensively in various fields.

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