This work helped him advance the concept of the Venn diagram. The term "Venn diagram" did not appear until 1918, when Clarence Lewis, an American academic philosopher and the eventual founder of ...

PROMPTED by the thought that a computer for the Boolean algebra should be of value, an electronic Venn diagram analogue computer (abbreviated to ‘VENDAC’ locally) has been devised. The ...

Venn used his diagrams to illustrate and explore such “symbolic logic” – defending and extending it. Symbolic logic underpins modern computing, and Boolean ... are valid in terms of ...

Venn applied Boolean algebra to improve visual reasoning. The diagrams are used to represent relations between entities, concepts, classes, or more generally to present information. Venn’s research ...