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The Curious History of Venn Diagrams


A look at the curious history of Venn diagrams and how they blend logic with geometry

Not merely visual aids, Venn diagrams can help us solve everyday logic problems, and they give rise to surprising geometric questions. Amanda Montañez; Source: “Venn Diagrams and Independent Families of Sets,” by Branko Grünbaum in Mathematics Magazine, Vol. Mathematicians at the University of South Carolina settled the question in 2004 by showing that rotationally symmetric Venn diagrams exist for every prime number of sets.

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