alleryStart learning →Who popularised the overlapping-circle method of showing sets in the 1880s?
ALeonhard Euler
BJohn Venn
CGeorge Boole
DGeorg Cantor
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. John Venn
John Venn introduced these overlapping-circle sets in 1880 and published them in his 1881 book Symbolic Logic.
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