Re: Extending my question. Was: The relational model and relationalalgebra - why did SQL become the industry standard?
From: Lauri Pietarinen <lauri.pietarinen_at_atbusiness.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:45:04 +0200
Message-ID: <3E4C1FF0.9020001_at_atbusiness.com>
Well, not being a mathematician,
but having studied some mathematics I was and
still am under the impression that all modern mathematics
is based on set theory which is equivalent with logic.
Here is a quote from Wikipedia
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics)
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:45:04 +0200
Message-ID: <3E4C1FF0.9020001_at_atbusiness.com>
In short, logic and set theory together are only a tiny part of mathematics. Don't evangelize them.
Well, not being a mathematician,
but having studied some mathematics I was and
still am under the impression that all modern mathematics
is based on set theory which is equivalent with logic.
Here is a quote from Wikipedia
(http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics)
<quote>
The current dominant mathematical paradigm is based on axiomatic set theory
and formal logic. Virtually all mathematical theorems today can be formulated
as theorems of set theory. The truth of a mathematical
statement, in this view, is then nothing but the claim that the statement
can be derived from the axioms of set theory using the rules of formal logic.
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Received on Thu Feb 13 2003 - 23:45:04 CET