25 February 2010

Venn in Wonderland: Paper on Nested Venn Diagrams & Lewis Carroll Diagrams Available

I did a bit more work on those nested Venn Diagrams, including research that turned up an alternative to Venn Diagrams produced by Lewis Carroll, known naturally enough as Lewis Carroll Diagrams.
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You may recognize the two-set version as the same structure used in the more recent "Boston Box".
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It transpires that Carroll used nesting of his diagrams as far back as 1896. Here is his diagram for eight sets.
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All this and more is described, with including the relationship to the Nested Venn Diagram I described in the previous post, in a paper entitled "Nested Venn Diagrams" from Stochastic Solutions.

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