In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

Sometimes you are given numbers expressed as a product of prime factors. For example, 8 = 2 3 and 90 = 2 × 3 2 × 5. If you want to find the LCM and HCF in an exam, we can use prime factor form ...

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 ...

Venn diagrams are great for helping us organise two sets of things based on their similarities and their differences. Things that have similarities are shown as overlapping circles, while things ...

Venn used the diagrams to prove a form of logical statement known as a categorical syllogism. This can be used to model reasoning. Here’s an example: “All computers need power.

Venn used the diagrams to prove a form of logical statement known as a categorical syllogism. This can be used to model reasoning. Here’s an example: “All computers need power.