Re: Extending my question. Was: The relational model and relationalalgebra - why did SQL become the industry standard?

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>In short, logic and set theory together are only a tiny part of mathematics.
>Don't evangelize them.
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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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The current dominant mathematical paradigm is based on axiomatic set theory and formal logic. Virtually all mathematical theorems today can be formulated as theorems <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem> 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.

<quote/> Received on Thu Feb 13 2003 - 16:45:04 CST