History question -- Tarski and Codd

From: John H. E. Fiskio-Lasseter <johnfl_at_cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:29:27 -0700
Message-ID: <3DADE847.44F00720_at_cs.uoregon.edu>

I've noticed that neither Kanellakis' encylopedic survey ("Elements of Relational Database Theory", from the Handbook of _Theoretical Computer Science_) nor Abiteboul/Hull/Vianu's textbook, _Foundations of Databases_
cite Tarski's paper, "On the Calculus of Relations" (Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1941).

I'm interested in the knowing the influence of this paper on Codd's formulation of relational algebra, as they seem closely related. One obvious step is to get copies of Codd's papers, but I'm having a bit of trouble tracking them down at the moment.

In the meantime, can someone enlighten me on the historical connection between these two works?

Thanks,
-- John

---

John Fiskio-Lasseter                   CIS Dept., University of Oregon
  * Phd. Student, Graduate Research Fellow, and former GTFF Steward
  * Deschutes 234              x6-1385           johnfl_at_cs.uoregon.edu


----------------------------------------------------------------------

  Wit, an' it be thy will, put me into good fooling. Those wits who   think they have thee do very oft prove fools, while I, who am sure   I lack thee, may yet pass for a wise man. For what says Quinapalus:   "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit".

                                               _Twelfth Night_


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 00:29:27 CEST