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> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:53:02 -0500
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> Subject: RE: [R] How to plot more than 3 sets in Venn Diagrams?
> To: "Tan Hui Hui Jenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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> Here is a link to see what's possible.
> http://www.combinatorics.org/Surveys/ds5/VennSymmEJC.html
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> Venn did 4 sets with ellipses (see wikipedia.)
>
> (There was an article in the last year (I think) in one of my math
> journals that presented someone who made these complex Venn diagrams as
> artwork and sold, but I can't remember the person's name right now.)
The book is
Cogwheels of the Mind : The Story of Venn Diagrams
by A. W. F. Edwards (foreword by Ian Stewart)
Hardcover: 136 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (April 26, 2004)
ISBN: 0801874343
It is a really beautiful book. There are also some journal articles
on the subject by Edwards and by Branko Grunbaum
(http://www.math.washington.edu/~grunbaum/BG228.pdf)
Edwards is my intellectual grandfather (thesis advisor's thesis advisor),
and it is a pleasure to recommend this book. (A bit irrelevant to R,
I know, but still ...)
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