John Venn: The man behind the famous diagrams – and why his work still matters today One of Venn’s major achievements was to find a way to visualise a mathematical area called set theory.

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Use Venn diagrams to illustrate data in a logical way which will enable you to see groupings and sets clearly.

Venn had initially used diagrams developed by the Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler to show some relationships between sets, which he then developed into his famous Venn diagrams.