' Immersive Math ' is a free textbook site that makes linear algebra, a field of mathematics that studies calculations such as vectors and matrices, easier to understand by providing interactive ...

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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 ...

John Venn – the British logician who around 1880 devised the ‘Venn diagram’ – celebrates his 185th birthday this week. His idea, a brilliantly simple visual aid to understanding logical relations, is ...

Venn diagrams typically use overlapping circles to show all possible relationships between sets. Traditionally, they include just two or three sets. This example shows how red, blue and green lights ...

As the culture of the diagram in science is magnificently wide in breadth and scope, for this post, I will concentrate on a few related examples in physics and one from mathematics. For part II, I ...

Earlier today I set you these four Venn diagram teasers: 1) For each of the regions marked A to D below, think of a fraction that could belong in it, or say that it is impossible. (Each circle ...