Venn Diagrams: Functional and Artistic

Mar 9, 2020 | Hinsdale

Most of you are probably familiar with Venn Diagrams before. We've all had to use them in class when we are comparing and contrasting things that either do or do not have things in common. They usually look like this: Image result for venn diagram

The website Wolfram-Math World gives us some examples of Venn Diagrams that are a little bit more complicated. Those look a little something like this:

Venn diagrams

But Venn Diagrams aren't just for seeing shared properties of numbers and formulas. They are also found in many works of art, such as the "Flower of Life" arrangment at Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt, also courtesy of of Wolfram-MathWorld:

FlowerofLife

You can see more beautiful examples of this ancient artwork here!

You can learn more about this artwork here!

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