THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS (ed. March 2001), DS #5.

Venn Diagram Survey
Acknowledgements


Many thanks to Anthony Edwards, Branko Grünbaum, Carla Savage, Peter Hamburger, and Rick Mabry for supplying reprints, figures, references and general help and advice in constructing these pages. Anthony Edwards and Branko Grünbaum have kindly allowed me to use scans of some of their diagrams. Also, thanks to the UVic students Glen Chen and Stirling Chow who did a marvelous job of created many of the pictures found on these pages. Stirling Chow is responsible for discovering many of the new symmetric diagrams for n = 7. Chelsea Jones input the corrdinates for the link versions and Tutte embeddings of the symmetric 7-Venn diagrams. Tao Cao verified that there are 23 simple monotone 7-Venn diagrams. Brendan McKay made several useful suggestions.

Thanks to Bette Bultena and Peng Yee Hock for finding small errors in the first version of this survey. Keith Briggs supplied some historical information.


THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS (ed. March 2001), DS #5.