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I'm having so much fun with today's interactive google doodle which celebrates the 180th anniversary of the birth of John Venn. I was testing out all the combinations and made these:

My favourite has to be the soprano and the clown car!

John Venn introduced the Venn diagram, which is a diagram that demonstrates a logical test on a collection of sets. For example, what is a mammal and is tiny? In the google doodle, one of the possible (or logical) overlap between a set of "mammals" and a set of "tiny" is a mouse.

I don't quite remember learning about Venn diagram in primary school, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhat incorporated into secondary school math class where it's applied in probability theory.

A ∩ B
A ∪ B

Ring a bell?

Anyway, I'm thinking how amazing this Venn diagram would be in the development of logical thinking in small children, who would then have the potential of growing up to be logical adults. Just saying.

Read about the designing of the google doodle here.



Born in 1834 in Yorkshire, England, John Venn's first vocation is that of an Anglican priest as he was descended from a long line of church evangelicals. It was after his return to Cambridge University aged 28 years old to lecture, that he developed the diagram of his namesake.