Re: Database in depth, by C.J. Date

Hi Ethan,

On 6/14/05, Post, Ethan <Ethan.Post_at_ps.net> wrote:
> Actually as I understand it Einstein was not all that great at math
> either, but he had the ability to conceptualize things that no one else
> could. I believe you can be a pretty good DBA and not really be great at
> math.

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there is an amusing diatribe through the physicists about=20 who was the greatest physicist of all time: Newton or Einstein.=20 Someone says that was Newton, because he developed by=20 himself the math he needs to give us the Theory of Gravitation, instead Einstein used the math of nineteenth century.=20  Well even if it is so, Einstein was really really great at math.

I didn't say you have to be great at math to be a pretty good DBA,=20 but the importance of math in computer science it is a fact.

Sorry if I have offended someone.

Best regards.

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