Re: Proposal: 6NF

From: Cimode <cimode_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 22 Oct 2006 02:51:32 -0700
Message-ID: <1161510692.434944.257290_at_m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>


paul c wrote:

> Right Christopher, I think some elementary school concepts can be quite
> misleading as there are very few teachers at that level who know much
> about math. For a little more well-thought-out look at basic concepts,
> the book I like is "introduction to mathematical philosophy" which was
> written by Bertrand Russell after he was disappointed by the low sales
> of the opus he wrote with Whitehead. Somewhere it's said that his angle
> was to aim it at the layman (so as to get more sales - this was in the
> days when every English town of any size had a scientific society that
> gave free lectures at night) and since I'm a layman when it comes to
> math, I'd say he succeeded. It is a charming little book, I believe
> still in print. One of its main themes concerns "what is a number?" but
> there are others intertwined notably "what is a relation".
Yep. Thanks for the reference...Could you provide an ISBN...Hope it is not one of this *Math on Crack* books....

> When I first came across it, I couldn't help but notice that many of the
> chapter titles might be said to be ideal ones for a book on database
> theory. He wrote it (while in jail) in 1917!
>
> paul c
>
> ps: Christopher, I remember you from years ago at the tlug meetings
> (before they kicked me out for trying to give away some core memory for
> free) - hope you are still enjoying the finite automata book - there
> were only two chapters I could understand, so I photocopied them and
> still have them!
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