Venn diagrams are usually used in logic theory, but they've found their way into other fields such as statistics, linguistics, education, and computer sciences. Image credits: ChickenChickenBurningBright And the confusion doesn’t stop there, because the name was changed by Clarence Lewis in 1918, in his book A Survey of Symbolic Logic. That's actually where the name as we now know it comes from.Įven though the diagram was named after the person who popularized them, similar ones were created in the 1700s and they were known as Eulerian circles because it was the Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler who created them. Even though they became more widely spread during this period, they existed quite some time before that.įirst of all the diagram became more known in the 1880s when English mathematician, logician and philosopher John Venn’s popularized it. These kinds of diagrams "help to visually represent the similarities and differences between two concepts” and they have been used since the mid-20th century. Circles that overlap have a commonality while circles that do not overlap do not share those traits." As Investopedia explains, "A Venn diagram is an illustration that uses circles to show the relationships among things or finite groups of things. You might not have heard of the term Venn diagram, but you certainly have seen it.
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People creating memes use Venn diagrams to show unexpected relations between people and things, pointing out how stupid some individuals can be or how unfair life can get. Making diagrams is so fun that Venn diagrams have actually become a fun template for memes. Since humans like to learn words through visuals, diagrams are the perfect tool to summarize someone’s findings in a simple, but dense and effective way. Made some friends this week most satisfying part of any presentation is the diagrams. People started reacting to the Venn diagram and here are some selected reactions: #1 He shared it with caption, “Why is this so funny to me” However, if our teachers would have used these examples of Venn diagrams that have been flooding on the micro-blogging site Twitter presently, it might have been very easy for us to understand them.Ī Twitter user Chelo (Twitter handle – shared a Venn diagram that talked about the common factor between preachers, DJs and bank robbers as all three of them tell us to put our hands up and the whole Twitter went into tizzy.įirst of all, take a look at what Chelo tweeted: Venn diagrams are not only difficult to understand but boring as well. In fact, if we ask whether you have used these Venn diagrams in your life ever, a vast majority will reply in negative. All of us must have studied Venn diagrams in our Mathematics class at some point of time and there is no doubt that majority of us would not have been able to understand them properly.