Venn Diagrams

John Venn & Venn Diagrams

Inspired by Eulerian Circles by the famous Swiss Mathematician, Leonhard Euler, John Venn used intersecting circles to display all possible intersections between 3 sets. This English logician helped to push the boundaries of Mathematics used in probability, logic and computational thinking.

John Venn (1834 - 1923)

Stain Glass of a Venn Diagram located in Cambridge, UK

Test Yourself!

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