British mathematician John Venn was born on August 4, 1834, so yesterday marked the 182nd anniversary of his birth in Hull, England. John Venn is most known for creating and introducing the Venn ...

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 ...

A Venn diagram can show data sets such as preferences in market research. When sets intersect (overlap), the elements in the intersection are members of both sets. When the sets have no elements in ...

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 ...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed legislation Friday stripping some powers from his Democratic replacement, and in the process, revealed his misunderstanding of a very elementary math concept.

Thinking diagrammatically as a way of conceptualizing our world has been in existence from the moment the first cave-person picked up a soft 'rock' and started making markings on the walls of his/her ...