Relational Databases and Mathematics?

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Steve Homer picture Steve Homer · Nov 14, 2009 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

Can anyone suggest resources that take a mathematical approach to relational databases? Essentially relational algebra I'd guess.

I have a mathematics background and now work a great deal with databases and would like to close the gap.

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Remo.D picture Remo.D · Nov 14, 2009

I would suggest starting from the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra.

Let me dig my library to see if I can find the name of the books I used when learning it....

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